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AN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW FIRM
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314
Philadelphia Ave., Tacoma Park, Maryland
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Call
Toll-Free 24 Hours 1-888-275-2757
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STEP
1:
Determine whether you have a computer related legal issue.
WHAT
IS COMPUTER LAW?
A PARABLE:
It
was late summer 1987. It was a relief to get out into the
night air after three hours of listening to the fine points
of tax, while sitting in in a room that was ten degrees
too hot. We walked to the subway with an elderly attorney.
We told him we worked in the area of computer law. In a
professorial tone, he told us to tell him the difference
between intellectual property and computer law. We tried
to find an answer for him by saying that computer law had
to do with computers; intellectual property, on the other
hand, overlapped but did not cover all possible computer
issues. He scoffed and asked us to point out an area where
"computer law" did not have something to do with property
of the mind (intellectual property). We could not fathom
a reasonable answer.
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many years, we have held to that attorney's opinion
that computer law actually was only a subset of intellectual
property. As technology has exploded in this Information
Age, we now know that computer law is truly an area
of practice overlapping, but none-the-less separate,
from intellectual property. It also can be argued that
there is another separate area of law dealing with telecommunications.
In our opinion, the intersection of computer and telecommunications
law is even greater than that of intellectual property
and computer law.
We
have listed below those areas which we feel fall within
either the realm of computer law or its fringes. The
areas in the parenteses indicate the respective areas
of law.
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Computer system sales and/or procurement (contract
and computer law)
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Computer law litigation in federal and state
courts
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Software ownership issues (contract law)
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Strategic joint venture agreements (business
law, possibly computer law)
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Mergers and acquisitions (SEC and contract
law)
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Copyright, trademark and trade secret protection
(Intellectual property law)
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Venture capital and related financing transactions
(SEC, banking and contract law)
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Internet contract issues (contract and computer
law)
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Internet international law issues (including
import and export)
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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and fax
sales (contract and partnership law)
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Electronic privacy (computer and constitutional
law)
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Computer communications equipment distribution
(computer, telecommunications and contract
law)
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Software licensing and distribution (computer
and contract law)
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Systems integration transactions (computer
and contract law)
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Nondisclosure agreements (Intellectual property
law)
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Noncompete agreements (Contract and intellectual
property law)
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Regulatory problems here in the U.S., Europe,
and the far east (telecommunications and computer
law)
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Legal issues relating to databases (computer
law)
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Legal issues relating to the Internet (computer
law)
Interconnection
and compatibility of international networks
(telecommunications, computer, and international
law)
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