04/01/1989
April 1989
A recent jury verdict for over $2.5M in favor of a computer consultant dramatically evidences the need for companies to carefully prepare written agreements for programming services.
In this case, …
04/01/1989
April 1989
A federal court in Connecticut has issued an important decision in the area of copyright protection of computer screen displays. The plaintiff in the case, Manufacturers Technologies, Inc. (“MTI”), …
04/01/1989
April 1989
The Semiconductor Chip Protection Act (the “Act”) became law in January 1985. The Act protects against the copying of “mask works”: the designs, created by engineers to represent the …
03/01/1989
By Lee T. Gesmer, Esq.
This article was originally published in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
The tremendous increase in the number of computer hardware and software vendors and business users over the …
01/01/1989
January 1989
On November 16, 1988, President Reagan signed The Trademark Law Revision Act, which will take effect one year from the date of signing, on November 16, 1989.
Although the Act …
01/01/1989
January 1989
Corporations with net operating loss carryforwards should be aware of the very complex (and sometimes surprising) rules implemented by the 1986 Tax Reform Act which can severely limit the …
01/01/1989
January 1989
For many years, the most important omission in international copyright protection for United States authors has been the failure of the U.S. to adopt the Berne Convention for the …
10/01/1988
OCTOBER 1988
Almost all high-tech companies depend to some extent on trade secret law to protect significant portions of their technology, regardless of any copyrights or patents they may hold. As …
10/01/1988
October 1988
A recent decision from the Federal Court of Appeals in New Orleans establishes several important precedents in computer copyright law. Vault Corp., the creator of the PROLOK copy protection …
10/01/1988
October 1988
The Department of Justice will soon finalize new Antitrust Guidelines for International Operations (the “Guidelines”). The last such guidelines were issued by the Justice Department in 1977, during an …
03/01/1986
By
Lee T. Gesmer
This article was presented at a Massachusetts Business Litigation seminar held in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986
I. Introduction
The enormous growth in the business market for computers over the last …
06/01/2022
Tell Us About Your Journey
My journey started back in 2010 in the United States Navy. I was a supply and logistics officer working on a minesweeper. Minesweepers were a 30 …
08/02/2022
Read Lee’s article on MassLawBlog here.
