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Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

The Power and Peril of IP Addresses: The Supreme Court of Canada Weighs in on the Changing Landscape of Online Privacy

The Supreme Court of Canada recently delivered a landmark decision on the privacy rights of Internet users. In R v Bykovets, police investigating an alleged online fraud requested and obtained a suspect’s Internet Protocol...more

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Patent Poetry: Fourth Circuit Overturns $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Verdict

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The Fourth Circuit has overturned a $1 billion verdict in a copyright case against Cox Communications. As the court explained, Defendant Cox Communications sells internet, telephone, and cable television service to 6...more

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Third Circuit Holds Facebook Not Immune Under Section 230 of Communications Decency Act from State Law Claims Alleging Violation...

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In a precedential opinion, Hepp v. Facebook, et al., ____ F.4th ______, No. 20-2725 (3d Cir. Sept. 23, 2021) (publication pending), the Third Circuit became the first Circuit Court of Appeals to apply the intellectual...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Federal Circuit Rules Presence of Google Servers in District Insufficient to Establish Venue

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On February 13, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the Eastern District of Texas’ ruling that venue was proper in In re Google, 2019-126, halting for now the line of precedent finding that...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

A Five-Star Decision: Yelp's Recent Victory Reaffirms The Broad Protections of Section 230

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In a closely watched decision with significant ramifications for online speech, earlier this week, the California Supreme Court struck down an injunction requiring Yelp, a popular online consumer review platform, to remove...more

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UK Supreme Court holds rights-holders should bear the costs of web-blocking injunctions

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The Supreme Court handed down its much anticipated judgment in Cartier International AG v British Telecommunications Plc yesterday. ...more

McAfee & Taft

Gavel to Gavel: Speedier service or biased browsing?

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Just last month, the Federal Communications Commission reversed its 2015 rules that were intended to ban internet service providers from paid prioritization of internet users, content and services. Originally published in ...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Location, Location, Location: Microsoft Debate Over Government’s Access to Overseas Data Heads to the Supreme Court

On October 16, 2017, the Supreme Court agreed to review the Second Circuit’s decision in United States v. Microsoft Corp., a case that highlights the current tension between law enforcement needs and privacy concerns in a...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Solicitor General Urges Supreme Court Review of Second Circuit Microsoft Decision

On June 23, 2017, the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the United States Supreme Court requesting reversal of a 2016 decision in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

BASCOM Global Internet Services, Inc. v. AT&T Mobility LLC (Fed. Cir. 2016) - Federal Circuit Concurrence -- Decide Patentability...

The Federal Circuit earlier today vacated a District Court's order dismissing BASCOM's complaint and remanded for further proceedings. BASCOM sued AT&T Inc. for patent infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,987,606, and the U.S....more

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