Judge Denies Facebook’s Request for Judgment on the Pleadings and Strikes Power.com Counterclaims — Facebook v. Power.com
…self-help If Facebook can show these four elements, it has a good chance at winning the Penal Code 502 case; indeed, this ruling indicates that under Penal Code 502, the…
Q2 2010 Quick Links Part 2
…signatures may satisfy the Election Code’s requirements under section 20A-9-502 regarding unaffiliated candidates wishing to run for statewide office.” Tom O’Toole’s writeup. Trademarks/Copyrights * Jim Jansen: “Only 4% of sponsored…
Q2 2010 Quick Links Part 1 (Content Regulation Edition)
…the password after seeing blog postings threatening him. The ex-boyfriend says he didn’t expect the new boyfriend to be reading the blog because: [California Penal Code] Section 502 provides that…
Use of Multiple (Even Random or Garbled) Domain Names to Bypass Spam Filter Does not Violate Cal. Spam Statute — Kleffman v. Vonage
…forged header information under Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17529.5(a)(2)? Discussion: The court starts out the discussion by noting a fact that to me starts and ends the discussion:…
Contributory Copyright Infringement Claim May Need Direct Infringer as a Defendant to Succeed–Miller v. Facebook
…of Boomshine’s source code to create the accused ChainRxn video game. Without Mr. Yeo in the case to provide testimony and the ChainRxn source code, however, it is unclear how…
9th Circuit Affirms Rejection of Data Breach Claims Against Gap — Ruiz v. Gap
…Ruiz, one of those applicants, brought claims on behalf of a putative class under theories of negligence, breach of contract, unfair competition (17200), the California constitution, and California Civil Code…
April-May 2010 Quick Links Part 1 (IP Edition)
…information technology. Such “cybermarks” are not merely indicators of product source, but function both as symbolic indicia for human recognition and as strings of computer code in the operation of…
EFF Weighs in on Facebook v. Power Ventures — Facebook v. Power Ventures
…summary judgment on the issue of whether Power.com’s conduct violates California Penal Code section 502(c). EFF recently weighed in with an amicus brief which makes the already interesting dispute even…
Geographic Trademark Leads to Interesting (& Tortured) Injunction–Skydive Arizona v. Quattrocchi
…and “Arizona Skydiving,” on or in connection with or as part of any website, including in meta tags, keywords in pay-for-placement or payfor-rank search engines, in source code or other…
Yahoo! Chat Logs Admitted Over Defendant’s Objections Based on Eavesdropping Statute — People v. Nakai
…Yahoo! chat logs were improperly admitted over his objection. Section 632 of the California Criminal Code prohibits the recordation of a “confidential communication . . . without the consent of…