A Texas federal district judge recently denied Z4 Technologies Inc.’s request to enjoin Microsoft from selling, making and using its infringing Windows and Office products. The ruling appears to be the first case to apply the holding in eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C., 126 S.Ct. 1837 (2006). The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in eBay ended …
In the early days of the Internet, enterprising and oftentimes unscrupulous persons would reserve domain names that were the same as or similar to the trade names and trademarks of others and then offer to sell those domains, at high fees, to their “rightful†owners. This practice was known as “cybersquatting.†The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection …
When a person dies, attention must be paid to the decedent’s intangible assets, such as Internet assets, as well as his/her tangible assets. Email accounts, online gaming property, Internet based bank and credit/debit accounts are all intangible property of the decedent’s estate. Care must be taken to assure that such property is recognized, categorized, quantified …
As traditionally used, “watermarks†are embedded text or images on a work of authorship, photograph or the like that identifies the author of the work. Their modern equivalents, “digital watermarks,†are used to fingerprint electronic media such as photographs, music and movies. Digital watermarks should be considered mandatory for artists and others who routinely post …
Mark J. Sever, Jr. is a partner in Archer & Greiner’s Haddonfield, New Jersey office and a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group, as well as its Technology Practice Group and Corporate Department. He has significant experience in both transactional and litigation matters involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, computers and other technology, …
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