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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
Google Makes the Case for its Advertising Deal With Yahoo
Here's an interesting web page from Google entitled Facts About the Yahoo-Google Advertising Agreement. There, Google "makes the case" for its proposed deal with Yahoo, which it describes as follows: On June 12, 2008, Yahoo! and Google announced an agreement that gives Yahoo! the ability to use Google's search and contextual advertising technology through its AdSense™ for Search and AdSense for Content advertising programs. Under the agreement, Yahoo! has the option to display Google ads...
The (now notorious) Sequoia Capital Slideshow – RIP Good Times
Hard times, hard times, come again no more. Many days you have lingered around my cabin door. Hard times, come again no more. Hard Times, by Stephen Foster, 1854 _______________________________ Sequoia Capital Slideshow - RIP Good Times - Upload a Document to Scribd Click here to read more about this presentation.
A Great UDRP Decision Search Engine
USpeakWeType Technologies, LLC has done the trademark bar a big favor by creating a UDRP search engine. This is the first time we have had access to the enormous volume of material that has been decided in the UDRP arbitrations. An example: assume that you are involved in an arbitration that has been assigned to panelist Ian Bradshaw. A search on his name shows that he has decided nine cases, involving brands as well known as Volvo and Chivas. He has ruled in favor of the complainant (either...
"Brandsucks.com"
Did you ever wonder how many large companies register their own "sucks" domain names (as in "microsoftsucks.com" or "AIGsucks.com") in order to prevent someone else from doing so? Like, some unfriendly nasty that wants to use the site to bash the company? How many "CIOs" ("chief information officer," for the uninitiated; don't blame yourself if you didn't know this), wish they had registered variations of their companies' names before the "gripers" got ahold of them? Many, I suspect. Check out...
Judge Gants' Decision in NERA v. Evans
One of the great benefits of the Suffolk Business Litigation Session (the BLS) is that the judges tend to write detailed opinions explaining their decisions. This tends to be less true elsewhere in the Superior Court. Recently-retired Superior Court Judge Allen van Gestel created a tradition of written jurisprudence while he headed the BLS, and his successors are keeping up the tradition. While these decisions are not published in an official reporter, and they are not binding precedent in the...
Zealous Advocacy, or Abuse of Advocacy?
In the Medtronic v. BrainLab patent litigation in U.S. District Court in Colorado, Senior U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch has sanctioned Medtronic Navigation, Inc. and its lawyers $4.3 million, an amount which represents part of the attorney's fees and costs incurred by BrainLab in defending this case. This order is a follow-up to his decision last February ordering that Medtronic be sanctioned, but not deciding (at that time) the precise amount of the sanction. Unusual circumstances led...
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