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XEROX CORP. v. 3COM CORP.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where the patent for single stroke symbols (used for improved computer recognition of human handwriting) relies upon both geometric shape and the...

VOYEUR DORM, L.C. v. CITY OF TAMPA, FL

Cyberspace Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Tampa City Code 27-523, which regulates adult businesses, applies only to locations or premises where adult entertainment is actually offered to the...

BROWN v. 3M

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where a claim is written using the disjunctive "or," and one of the options is anticipated by prior art, the entire claim is invalid for lack of...

HILGRAEVE CORP. v. SYMENTEC CORP.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where the claim construction distinguishes prior art as unable to prevent an operating system from accessing a computer virus, defendant's expert...

SEC. & EXCHANGE COMM'N v. SG LTD.

Cyberspace Law, Securities Law
Virtual shares in an enterprise existing only in cyberspace, part of a fantasy investment game created for the personal entertainment of Internet...

US v. MEIENBERG

Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Evidence
Printouts of preexisting records that happened to be stored on a computer are not the result of a "process or system used to produce a result" such...

FORD MOTOR CO. v. TEXAS DEP'T OF TRANSP., MOTOR VEHICLE DIV.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law
A Texas statute forbidding motor vehicle manufacturers from selling products over the Internet does not discriminate against interstate commerce where...

PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS v. DOUGHNEY

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
To use a mark "in connection with" goods or services, defendant need not have actually sold or advertised goods or services on a web site, but need...

BELL ATL. NETWORK SERVS., INC. v. COVAD COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, INC.

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Where a claim specifies a changing rate of data transfer, no combination of static rate data transfer devices can be infringing under the doctrine of...

US v. SIMMONDS

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Cyberspace Law
"Distribution" of child pornography over the Internet under Sentencing Guideline 2G2.4(b)(2) does not require a defendant to have received something...