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New Law Cracks Down On Deceptive Third-Party e-Commerce Practices Image

New Law Cracks Down On Deceptive Third-Party e-Commerce Practices

Michael Lear-Olimpi

A new layer of federal oversight should help protect consumers and ethical e-commerce companies against misleading and name-tarnishing activities of outlaw e-tailers who have ripped off thousands of U.S. consumers. On Dec. 29, President Obama signed the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act, introduced in the Senate early last year by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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Viacom Appeal May Decide Future of the Web

Amanda Bronstad

A long-simmering copyright dispute between Hollywood and the Web has hit the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ' and the outcome could set a national precedent regarding the scope of potential liability for nearly every business on the Internet that posts infringing content.

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Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged -- Via Online Resources Image

Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged -- Via Online Resources

Lisa Reisz & David Dilenschneider

The explosion of information about judges now available online has enabled researchers to uncover indications of possible bias, prejudice and other relevant tidbits.

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Converting to Office 2007 and Struggling with Word?

Lance Waagner

In collecting and analyzing massive amounts of legal helpdesk ticketing data, including more than 600,000 helpdesk tickets within a recent nine-month time frame, legal-specific outsourcers and internal helpdesks alike pinpointed a noticeable, albeit predictable trend: More than 50% of all tickets resolved by the helpdesk relate to Microsoft Office products, with Word and Outlook leading the charge.

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How Legal IT Can Avoid the Pitfalls of Risky ESI Collections Image

How Legal IT Can Avoid the Pitfalls of Risky ESI Collections

Alon Israely

In almost every respect, e-discovery falls squarely in the domain of attorneys ' inside counsel, outside counsel and experts. Essentially, it is the business process for litigation, regulatory matters and internal investigations. So why is IT involved in almost every situation? The answer is quite simple: because IT must be involved.

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Analyzing the U.S. Supreme Court's Decision Not to Review <i>Tiffany v. eBay</i> Image

Analyzing the U.S. Supreme Court's Decision Not to Review <i>Tiffany v. eBay</i>

Janet Satterthwaite

In <i>Tiffany v. eBay</i>, the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court's ruling in favor of eBay on the key issue of contributory trademark infringement, as well as direct infringement and dilution, but remanded on the issue of false advertising. The upshot of the holding is that despite a general knowledge that a significant percentage of Tiffany goods sold on eBay were counterfeit, eBay did not have a duty to prevent any such sales unless and until a specific instance of fraud was brought to its attention.

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e-Commerce Bounces Back Strongly in Third Quarter

Michael Lear-Olimpi

Are Americans taking to heart the talk of politicians and some private-sector observers that the long-punishing economic and financial crisis that has put businesses into scrapbooks and people on the street is on the wane? The Census Bureau said recently that preliminary estimated U.S. retail e-commerce sales shot up 4% from the second quarter, tallying $41.5 billion.

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Cyber Monday Explodes

Michael Lear-Olimpi

Little was virtual beyond a typical conversational reference to this holiday season's once-again record-setting Cyber Monday and other online-holiday shopping excursions. The retail-industry dubbed day for online shopping and incentives for consumers to cybershop hit the jackpot with an echoing boom Nov. 29, racking up the biggest day of online shopping in history and breaking the billion-dollar mark

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Fast or Slow?

Louis D. Lieto & Vern Norviel

A threshold question for each patent filing is the speed at which a patent is desired.

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What's All This Talk About ROI of Social Media? Image

What's All This Talk About ROI of Social Media?

Lisa Tierney

There are many discussions going on about the use of social media among attorneys. Surely there are folks who don't understand the value of these mediums, mostly because of inexperience in using them. "Why should I go on Twitter and tell someone what I'm doing? Who is going to care?" they ask. To those people, I would suggest turning that question around: "When I have just heard a piece of important and timely information that would benefit some of my colleagues, how can I tell them all at once ' easily and quickly?" Now that's the question to be asking.

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