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The Next Patent Frontier -- Financial Product Patents ( February 2003 )
Like their software predecessors in the 1980s and their fallen Internet brethren of the 1990s, managers of financial products and services are entering a brave new world where management of intellectual property assets has become vital to protecting their bottom line. This new management challenge is a result of the steady expansion by the courts of what innovations are subject to patent protection. -
The Brothers Chudnovsky ( November 2002 )
By all accounts, David and Gregory Chudnovsky are brilliant number theorists. Their quest to calculate pi to the greatest number of decimal places was warmly chronicled in a long <i>New Yorker</i> profile in 1992 titled "The Mountains of Pi." Three years later, <i>New York Magazine</i> ranked the Chudnovskys among the 100 smartest New Yorkers. And two years after that, <i>Esquire</i> included the brothers (as a unit) in a grouping of "The 100 Best People in the World." The brothers have all sorts of inventions worthy of both patent protection and commercialization. There is only one problem. They are not fans of the patent system and are reluctant capitalists. -
Subrogation and E-Commerce: E-Subrogation: New Coverage, Claims, and Recoveries ( June 2002 )
Recently, insurers have expanded their product lines to cover traditional risks in new advertising mediums, such as the Internet. -
Insurance and High Technology: CyberInsurance: Consistency In Claims And Coverage Resolution ( March 2002 )
When it comes to computers, invulnerability and complete reliability are outmoded terms in an increasingly networked world. Most insureds will lose the functionality of your computer network several times during a specific term of insurance coverage. -
Patent Infringement Claims for Use of Association Standards Lead to Fraud Verdict ( August 2001 )
A federal court in Richmond, Va., recently awarded a $350,000 judgment against Rambus Inc., a computer chip designer, for committing fraud against Infineon Technologies AG in the context of the standards setting process of the Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council, a nonprofit association. -
Bioinformatics 101: Basics for the Computer Lawyer ( May 2001 )
At the intersection of information technology and biology lies Bioinformatics. Simply put, Bioinformatics is the use of computers to store, retrieve, analyze or predict the sequence or structure of biological information. It combines aspects of mathematics, statistics, computer science, and biology within a given set of partly discovered biological rules and IT solutions. -
Decision on Scope of Covered Loss to Computer Operations from Power Outage Sparks Policyholder Interest ( September 2000 )
This alert reviews the American Guarantee & Liability Insurance Company v. Ingram Micro Inc, decision whereby the Ninth Circuit left standing the lower court's opinion that a power outage that temporarily erased the contents of a computer memory chip triggered a first party property claim under an insurance contract. -
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act ( December 2000 )
This alert examines the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) which will go into effect in the UK during the latter part of 2000 and early part of 2001. -
Maryland's Year 2000 Technology Initiative--June 2000 ( October 2000 )
On April 25, 2000, Maryland Governor Parris N. Glendening signed into law multiple pieces of legislation designed t. -
Federal E-Commerce: "Reverse Auctions" ( September 2000 )
This alert reviews the use of electronic "reverse auctions" in the area of federal procurement.