Mass Law Blog
Intellectual property and business litigation, Massachusetts and nationallyWritten by humans
Lee Gesmer’s Mass Law Blog began in 2005, and contains almost 600 posts. The site initially focused on Massachusetts law, but today it follows business and intellectual property law nation-wide. The site is hosted by Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm represents startup and established companies in the areas of litigation, transactions (including financings, mergers and acquisitions), IP rights, taxation, employment law, standards consortia, business counseling and open source development projects and foundations. You can find a summary of the firm’s services here. To learn how Gesmer Updegrove can help you, contact: Lee Gesmer
Google and Turing’s Cathedral
Technology. Science historian George Dyson visited Google recently, upon the 60th anniversary of John von Neumann's proposal for a digital computer. His musings, in the form of a short essay published by Edge, are provocative and fascinating. My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral - not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, while it was being built. . . .
Bag and Baggage
Denise Howell at Bag and Baggage complimented my firm's various blogs (1, 2 and 3) and I have to return the compliment. When I sat down with our web/blog master Nathan Burke to show him what I considered the best legal blogs, we basically started and stopped with Bag and Baggage. If I could bring only one blog to a desert island ....
Politics, Sausages and Computer File Formats
Technology. Did you ever think you'd see politicians debating software file formats? Massachusetts has become embroiled in a politicized debate over a state agency's decision to move away from Microsoft's proprietary standards and require that all state employees, commencing in 2007, save documents in two state-approved file formats: Adobe Acrobat PDF files and the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications. The logic behind this issue is simple: if Massachusetts moves to Oasis...
Yet Another Google Keyword Trademark Case
Office Depot, the office supply giant, has filed a lawsuit against arch rival Staples in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, Florida. Office Depot's complaint alleges that Staples has engaged in trademark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, and deceptive trade practices by buying VIKING, a trademark owned by one of Office Depot's subsidiaries, as an advertising keyword from Google. Google has successfully defended its right to use third party trademarks in its keyword...
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