Technology Media and Telecom

  • Is an Integrated e-Discovery Solution the Best Approach?

    With law firms increasingly feeling pressure to adapt to client demands to reduce bills and expenses, an integrated e-discovery solution may seem like a wise investment. Having fewer vendors providing necessary services is always beneficial. It means less administrative overhead, less potential for miscommunication, and less time spent training staff on new software. However, when it comes to e-discovery, an integrated solution may not always provide a law firm with exactly what it needs.

    August 19, 2010David Deusner

  • How Fulbright & Jaworski Transformed Its Document Review Process

    As e-discovery practitioners, our goal is to make the process for our clients more manageable and as cost-effective as possible. We sought to automate and streamline the process through the application of strategic technology and well-developed workflows.

    July 29, 2010Laurie Weiss and Tom Barce

  • Florida Law Firms Protest Bar's Online Ad Rules

    While the ACLU and other nonprofit legal groups have been declared exempt from a strict proposal for regulating lawyer Web sites, Florida's largest law firms are starting to band together to protest the regulations, largely on First Amendment grounds.

    July 29, 2010Julie Kay

  • Judicial Takings

    Can a state court decision effect a judicial "taking" in violation of the federal constitution? The United States Supreme Court addressed that question this term, but did not furnish a definitive answer.

    July 29, 2010sewart E. Sterk

  • Social Gaming Is Battleground over 'Fast Following'

    Litigation in the social gaming sector features young companies vying for position in a lucrative and fast-growing market where copycat games and employee poaching are commonplace. Social gaming is expected to contribute more than $800 million this year to the $1.6 billion virtual goods market. Legal questions continue to surround the sector's ubiquitous practice of "fast following" ' quickly copying competitors' successful gaming concepts.

    July 29, 2010Kate Moser

  • Commentary: Comparing Collective Licensing Proposals For Internet Licensing of Copyrighted Content

    Advances in digital distribution technologies and widespread use of the Internet have moved media distribution technology out of the control of rights holders and distributors, and directly into the hands of consumers or creative members of the general public. To address how U.S. copyright law should apply to new business models that take advantage of these technologies, some have proposed collective rights licensing at the Internet service provider (ISP) level.

    July 29, 2010Steven Masur

  • Txt2Win and Mobile Promos

    Sweepstakes and contests have become popular in mobile promotion. However, because sweepstakes and contests are highly regulated, a marketer using a mobile device must comply not only with mobile-messaging laws and regulations, but also with those governing sweepstakes and contests. Indeed, text messaging as a sweepstakes-entry method has brought much consumer litigation in recent years.

    July 29, 2010Alan L. Friel & Jesse M. Brody

  • Stop in the Name of ' the IP Police?

    When it comes to infringement of intellectual property, there are no "IP police" hiding in the obscure nooks and crannies of cyberspace to chase down those who misuse property online. Instead, the e-commerce firm itself often must become its own IP cop, when it discovers ' as it inevitably will in the online free-for-all ' that its marks, copyrighted content or knockoffs of its unique products appear on the Web site or in the e-catalog of a competitor.

    July 29, 2010Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

  • Patent Correction: Navigating the Confusing Terrain of Broadening Reissue

    There are times when a patent owner may discover that an issued patent does not claim everything that the patent should have covered. When such defects are discovered, one strategy a patent owner may wish to consider is filing a request with the USPTO for a broadened reissue of a U.S. patent to enlarge the scope of the claims of the original patent.

    July 29, 2010Edward Van Gieson and Paul Stellman