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This case is reminiscent of the revelation years ago that animators for Disney's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" movie had rendered Jessica Rabbit a bit more realistically than a G movie-rating would allow, technology attorney Raymond Van Dyke told the E-Commerce Times "It was all ...

Fifty years ago, novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand wrote of a society that hindered innovation and stifled the creative spirit. Atlas Shrugged told of a society where individual effort went unrewarded, where technological advancement was thwarted by short-term greed, and where the governments failed to serve the greater public good. Although fiction, some of these societal concerns are mirrored in various proposed changes to the patent laws under consideration today...

In a world as large as Second Life has become, crime is to be expected, technology attorney Raymond Van Dyke told LinuxInsider "Second Life is a true alternate universe to millions; is it at all surprising that amidst the monsters there may be some thieves?" Van Dyke said. "[A...

"This case shows that SanDisk is serious," technology attorney Raymond Van Dyke told the E-Commerce Times. "Concurrent filings in the district court as well as the International Trade Commission demonstrate their strong concern that their patents are being infringed." The ITC,...

"The Internet industry has made great strides with Web site interfaces, and companies would naturally want to include all citizens in the sphere of Internet commerce," Raymond Van Dyke, a Washington-based technology attorney, told the E-Commerce Times. "This class certification action indeed signals that the judge in that case feels that some interface tools are deficient for at least one demographic."

"Great care must be taken in balancing the needs of the populace, wanting ease of access to information on the Internet, and the providers, needing to make a profit in this rapidly evolving field," Raymond Van Dyke, a Washington-based technology attorney, told the E-Commerce Times...

"This case is tricky in that the imported items found infringing -- chips and circuit boards -- are employed within various products such as PDAs, deemed downstream products for an infringement determination," technology attorney Raymond Van Dyke told the E-Commerce Times "At ...

"The theft of copyrighted material is a serious matter," technology attorney Raymond Van Dyke told TechNewsWorld "Here, the posted materials were exceptionally sensitive and quite valuable. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, and the rights of content owners who invest millions...

"Attorney General Gonzales' proposal to provide further protections of intellectual property are music to the ears to the software, music, movie and other industries," technology attorney Raymond Van Dyke told TechNewsWorld "Intellectual property is the lifeblood of United Sta...

"This case is an example of the continuing tension between the legitimate protection of digital content and ever-increasing software capabilities," technology attorney Raymond Van Dyke told TechNewsWorld "MRT may not be suing John Doe anymore, but suing John Rockefeller is a w...

Whether it does help Vonage remains to be seen, but the KSR decision is likely to have some lower courts taking a different view of patent cases, said intellectual property attorney Raymond Van Dyke of Nixon Peabody "This becomes the latest and most important word on patent ob...

"There are forces out there that are trying to arrest the forward momentum of the pendulum toward protections of IP," Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Nixon Peabody, told the E-Commerce Times. "We in the patent bar are concerned about that." "I think our intellectual property ...

The decision "clearly affects the software industry," attorney Raymond Van Dyke of Nixon Peabody in Washington, D.C., told the E-Commerce Times. "In some ways, it's a very narrow statutory decision. AT&T had one view on the level of whether software can be a component, and Microsoft [had] a very different view."

The decision "clearly affects the software industry," attorney Raymond Van Dyke of Nixon Peabody in Washington, D.C., told the E-Commerce Times. "In some ways, it's a very narrow statutory decision. AT&T had one view on the level of whether software can be a component, and Microsoft [had] a very different view."

The decision "clearly affects the software industry," attorney Raymond Van Dyke of Nixon Peabody in Washington, D.C., told the E-Commerce Times. "In some ways, it's a very narrow statutory decision. AT&T had one view on the level of whether software can be a component, and Microsoft [had] a very different view."

"The question is whether these avatars violate criminal statutes by illegally gambling in these cyberworlds," technology attorney Raymond Van Dyke told the E-Commerce Times "To the extent cybergambling is employed as a surrogate for illegal gambling, with actual gambling occur...

"This is a sad situation for a hacker," technology attorney Raymond Van Dyke told TechNewsWorld. "His timing, around 9/11 and its aftermath, and very sensitive targets, numerous military computer systems no less, were serious transgressions "As exclaimed in the show the 'X-Fil...

"Just as with the woes of the music and film industries, the transition to this brave, new digitalized world is bumpy," technology attorney Raymond Van Dyke told the E-Commerce Times A lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild against Google is just the beginning of the "war over tex...

At one time, U.S. patent laws only applied to activities in the United States. Then in 1972, Congress passed 35 U.S.C. 271(f) to keep companies from shipping components abroad for assembly in order to avoid patent claims, Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Nixon Peabody, told the E-Commerce Times...

At one time, U.S. patent laws only applied to activities in the United States. Then in 1972, Congress passed 35 U.S.C. 271(f) to keep companies from shipping components abroad for assembly in order to avoid patent claims, Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Nixon Peabody, told the E-Commerce Times...