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September 8, 2003 – California man has pleaded guilty to six counts of wire fraud in connection with a sophisticated scheme to steal nearly $600,000 of computer equipment from businesses in Wenham, Massachusetts and Santa Barbara, California. Brian Tinney, 33, who pleaded guilty in United States District Court in Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon, set up a […]

September 2000 – The Internet and the rise of globalization are creating new pressure to develop a commercial code that’s recognized worldwide. More than 700 years ago, Britain enjoyed a huge boom in commerce thanks to the era’s great technological innovation–passable roads. But this revolutionary development also created unforeseen new problems. Among them: It became easy […]

The World Wide Web is a system of Internet servers that supports hypertext to access several Internet protocols on a single interface. The World Wide Web is often abbreviated as the Web or WWW. The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee of the European Particle Physics Lab (CERN) in Switzerland. The […]

To establish a website, the owner must first register the site name with a domain name registry. As a general rule, you can register any domain name that isn’t already registered, without regard to whether the name is in fact a trademark owned by a different company. This has led to a number of instances […]

A signature is not part of the substance of a transaction, but rather of its representation or form. Signing writings serve the following general purposes: Evidence: A signature authenticates a writing by identifying the signer with the signed document. When the signer makes a mark in a distinctive manner, the writing becomes attributable to the […]

Under federal law, it has been permissible for a trademark owner to sue the owner of a domain name for bad-faith registration since Nov. 29, 1999, when President Clinton signed the Anit-Cybersquatting Protection Act. The CPA provides that anyone bringing a claim must prove bad faith. Bad faith is a legal term that means dishonesty […]