An interesting decision from the 8th Circuit, Davidson involves an appeal from the grant of summary judgment to the plaintiffs. Davidson does business as Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., creator of popular online cooperative games like Warcraft II. In order to play a game like Warcraft II online, Blizzard’s game connects to its Battle.net servers with a…
Author: Kevin A. Thompson
Kevin A. Thompson practices primarily in the area of domestic and international trademarks, copyrights and internet law issues. He is experienced with prosecuting international applications under the Madrid Protocol. Kevin counsels clients in the selection, clearance, and maintenance of trademarks. He advises them with respect to enforcement of rights, and assists in representing them in disputes around the world to protect their valuable intellectual property.
Kevin received his law degree from DePaul University College of Law in 1998 with Honors and Order of the Coif. Kevin received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. He is on the Board of Managers for the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, having served in the past as the chair of its Internet Law Committee, and is also past chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Computer Law Committee.
Microsoft: Damned if you do.
The patches that Microsoft released for a security flaw are partly to blame for the recent Zotob virus outbreak. As noted in many places, among them being This Week in Tech, hackers reverse engineered the patches to determine exactly where the security flaw was and released the Zotob virus within *THREE DAYS*. Microsoft is damned…
Archives
Well, I’ve sort of fixed the archives problem I mentioned previously. The monthly archives are still unavailable ( except for August, which is fine), but I found a great plugin that lists the underlying posts in each month, so the same effect is reached. I’ll keep working on the problem, I’ve learned a lot while…
Faking it! – Blawg Review #20
My posts on Attention made it into Blawg Review #20, hosted this week over at The Mommy Blawg. The theme? Reality TV shows. My posts fall into her “Faking it” category since she didn’t know where to fit them into the other themes. Nice theme idea, I suggest reviewing all the submissions this week. When…
Attention – Part Two
Since the first post, I found an excellent summary of Attention from a practical point of view by Dare Obasanjo. Nick Bradbury has another good post. From an IP attorney’s point of view, Attention is interesting because it is an attempt to create a new property right in the aggregate of data. It’s different from…
Attention – Part One
My Attention was drawn by the recent Gillmor Gang on Attention, forcing me to listen to the whole thing three times in order to get a handle on where the Gang was coming from. Steve Gillmor is now the president of Attention Trust, a new non-profit group interested in advocating for the “basic rights of…
Spyware part of ID Theft Ring
This is very, very disturbing. An article over at Eweek claims that the spyware called CoolWebSearch is actually a keylogger. A test by a spyware removal company found that the program is sending passwords, user names and bank account information to a server in Texas. The FBI has been notified, but the article does not…
Archives
For some reason, the archives are still messed up. It’s a result of the conversion from Blogger, and I haven’t had much luck fixing it. Until I fix it, the best way to get older posts is by category. Thanks for bearing with me.
Must Read: Inside the Cisco/Lynn Controversy
For those of you who don’t know, Michael Lynn gave a speech at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on July 26th that has erupted into controversy. The topic? A revelation of the vulnerabilities in the Cisco routers that are the backbone of the Internet. He had to quit his job before doing it,…
Upgrade in progress
Please excuse any hiccups over the next few days, I’ve upgraded Cyberlaw Central to run on WordPress. It was time to move on. I will post any updates as necessary, but the Feedburner feed should stay the same.