Internet Cases

"Legal developments involving the Internet and new technologies."

Author: Evan D. Brown is an associate in the Chicago office of Hinshaw & Culbertson. His practice focuses on intellectual property and technology law.

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Recent Posts from Internet Cases

Slamming Wikipedia’s reliability not enough in immigration case
Badasa v. Mukasey, — F.3d —, 2008 WL 3981817 (8th Cir. Aug. 29, 2008) Illegal alien Badasa sought asylum in the United States. To establish her identity, she submitted to the Immigration Judge a “laissez-passer”…
Ninth Circuit: No personal jurisdiction over out of state eBay seller
Boschetto v. Hansing, — F.3d —, 2008 WL 3852676 (9th Cir. August 20, 2008) Hansing, a resident of Wisconsin, offered a 1964 Ford Galaxie for sale on eBay. Boschetto, a California resident, was the winning…
Sender of DMCA takedown notice should consider fair use
Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., No. 07-3783 (N.D. Cal. August 20, 2008). [Download the opinion] Hat tip to Joe Gratz for breaking this story. One of the things that a person sending a takedown notice…
Google doesn’t have to pay $50 billion to defamation plaintiff
Steele v. Mengelkoch, 2008 WL 2966529 (Minn.App. August 5, 2008). Pro se plaintiff Steele sued Google in Minnesota state court for $50 billion because Google indexed an article which Steele though defamed him. Google moved…
Pop-ups don’t amount to unfair competition in Utah case
Nor do they give rise to tortious interference. Overstock.com, Inc. v. SmartBargains, Inc., — P.3d —-, 2008 WL 3835094 (Utah August 19, 2008) In 2004, Overstock.com sued its competitor SmartBargains in Utah state court for…
Listen to yours truly on This Week in Law
This Week in Law (TWiL) episode 16 is up, and it’s an interesting one. I was really happy to be part of a super deluxe panel comprised of host Denise Howell, Nicole Black, Marty Schwimmer…
CFAA requires intent to cause harm, not merely intent to transmit
Kalow & Springnut, LLP v. Commence Corporation, 2008 WL 2557506 (D.N.J. June 23, 2008) The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 18 U.S.C. §1030 et seq. creates civil liability for anyone who “knowingly causes…
He was a trademark owner, she was a competitor, he would take her to court over keyword advertising.
In a lawsuit filed recently, Plaintiff Rosetta Stone Ltd. claimed that Defendants Rocket Languages Ltd. et al. infringed Rosetta Stone’s trademarks and engaged in unfair competition. The Plaintiff provides foreign language educational software under the…
Wouldn’t Privnote be better if it had a privacy policy?
Update (added 7/10): Privnote now has a Privacy Policy: https://privnote.com/privacy/ Last week ReadWriteWeb profiled Privnote, which provides a service that purportedly allows you to send messages that will self destruct upon being read by the…
Software distributor agreement violated New York’s Rule Against Perpetuities
McAllister Software Systems, Inc. v. Henry Schein, Inc., No. 06-0093, 2008 WL 922328 (E.D. Mo. April 2, 2008) This case came out about three months ago, and I should have blogged about it then but…