INTERNET LAW

Employers, avoid email legal problems! Email can cause employers a litany of concerns. This article deals primarily with the legal problems surrounding email. Computers have opened the door to a host of problems and liabilities for employers. Just how, to what extent, and possible countermeasures came under discussion at an education session conducted by John […]

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification. The USPTO cooperates with the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Japan Patent Office (JPO) as […]

Legality United States The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in November 2002 that the Federal Wire Act prohibits electronic transmission of information for sports betting across state lines but affirmed a lower court ruling that the Wire Act “‘in plain language’ does not prohibit Internet gambling ‘on a game of […]

No. State law prohibits the transmission or receipt of any wager or gambling information intended to be used for bookmaking or other unauthorized gambling activity. It is also illegal under federal law, including the Federal Wire Wager Act (18 U.S.C. § 1084), to operate a betting or wagering business using telephone lines or other “wire […]

Combating offensive or illegal online speech is difficult both for practical and legal reasons. On the practical side, the ease of anonymous communications on the Internet presents problems in identifying the person responsible for offensive or illegal communications. From the legal side, the First Amendment often provides protection of speech that is critical, annoying, offensive […]

A digital signature (not to be confused with a digital certificate) is an electronic signature that can be used to authenticate the identity of the sender of a message or the signer of a document, and possibly to ensure that the original content of the message or document that has been sent is unchanged. Digital […]