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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
First Circuit Upholds Preliminary Injunction Enforcing 12 Month Non-Solicitation Clause
In Corporate Technologies v. Harnett, decided by the First Circuit on August 23, 2013, the court upheld the Massachusetts U.S. District Court's enforcement of a 12-month employee non-solicitation clause. The court rejected Harnett's (the former employee) argument that he did not solicit Corporate Technologies' customers, particularly given evidence that the new employer sent a "blast email" to a group that included many of Corporate Technologies' customers. The opinion contains an extensive...
Article published in Lawyer’s Weekly: Applying Copyright Law to New Technologies Still Challenging
Embedded below is an article I wrote for Massachusetts Lawyer's Weekly that was published in the paper's September 9, 2013 issue. A link to the article on MLW's website is here (subscription required). A link to the original article in an easier to read format is here. [scribd id=167031650 key=key-2m2nwygd60rgez54bcti mode=scroll]
Aeroe Copyright Law Article in Cyberspace Lawyer
The Cyberspace Lawyer was nice enough to take the four-part article on the Aereo copyright case that I published earlier this summer (Part 1 here), combine it into a cohesive whole and publish it in their August issue. The article is embedded below via scribd. A direct link to the article is here. [scribd id=164054335 key=key-ad2bq8dybmovi0uwn70 mode=scroll]
Liberation Music Throws Lessig a Meatball Pitch in “Lisztomania” DMCA Takedown Suit
Harvard Law School professor Larry Lessig must have fallen off his chair in disbelief when he learned that Liberation Music, copyright owner of the song Lisztomania, recorded by Phoenix, had used the DMCA to force Youtube to remove the video of a lecture by Lessig that included video remix examples of this song. He soon straightened up and filed what could become an interesting test case involving wrongful DMCA takedown notices and copyright fair use. However, in the process he suffered...
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