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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
Guest Post: There Is No Substitute For Taking a Risk
“ In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first step forward in faith. ” — August Wilhelm von Schlegel ____________________ Now that Christmas is over its time to start thinking about 2014, and that means New Year's resolutions. The guest post below was written by my partner Jonathan Draluck and published last month on Gesmer Updegrove LLP's BostInno channel. Jonathan didn't write this with New Year's resolutions in mind, but it struck me as inspirational as we...
Crouch Quoting Chisum on CLS Bank
I can't resist quoting Dennis Crouch, quoting Don Chisum, on the the Supreme Court's pending review of the CLS Bank case: The Supreme Court often intervenes to resolve splits among the various courts of appeal. Here a split exists within a circuit that the circuit itself is unable to resolve. The circuit judges' varying interpretations of a body of recent and not-so-recent Supreme Court precedent riddled with fuzzy language and inconsistent results caused the split. Now, the Court has the...
Oral Argument in Oracle v. Google: A Setback for Google?
On November 26th I published a post titled "Oracle v. Google: How Google Could Lose on Appeal." Oral argument before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was held on December 4, 2013, and a recording of the oral argument has been released. Based on comments and questions from the bench, the hearing went poorly for Google. The very points I raised in my post were raised by the judges in questions to the attorneys for the parties. As I commented in my post, District Court Judge Alsup's...
The Authors Guild v. Google and Fair Use
"[Google Books] could be the most important contribution to the spread of knowledge since Jefferson dreamed of national libraries. It is an astonishing opportunity to revive our cultural past, and make it accessible." - Lawrence Lessig "The scale of Google's plans boggles the mind." Prof. James Grimmelmann " Letting Google organize all of the world’s information makes as much sense as letting Halliburton organize all of the world’s oil." Evgeny Morozov Be admonished: of making many books...
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