Have you been inundated lately, as an executive officer, with requests for “Additional insured status,” since Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) was announced? I have, and so I looked up what additional insured status
Published on: August 7th, 2014 Fawn Annan @fawnannan
Two Facebook users are suing the social network for looking at the content of users' communications, including private messages, and mining that content for user data to share with third parties like advertisers
Published on: January 3rd, 2014 Candice So @candice_so
Canadians using Groupon prior to March 8 were sent notice that the $500,000 settlement approval for the class action lawsuit against Groupon Inc. has gone through, giving an estimated 1 million daily deal
Published on: December 2nd, 2013 Candice So @candice_so
As an IT pro, you could get in legal trouble without even realizing it. You may be liable for civil damages, criminal fines, and/or jail time if, while doing your job, you intentionally
Published on: July 21st, 2010 Peter S. Vogel @itbusinessca
Apple officials told police investigators that the publication of photos of an iPhone prototype was "immensely damaging" to the company and represented a "huge" loss, recently released court documents show. Those documents, released
I'm not a reflexive enemy of the U.S. patent system. But having spent the day mulling over Apple's lawsuit against High Tech Computer (HTC) over smartphone-related patents, it still feels like the move
Published on: March 4th, 2010 Harry McCracken and Dan Nystedt @itbusinessca
It seems that Microsoft knew all along that they were going to get hit like a drum by i4i when the Canadian company won its XML patent lawsuit. Of course, that isn't what
Published on: January 7th, 2010 Steven Vaughan-Nichols @itbusinessca
An Appeals court in Boston has overturned a trial judge's ruling that would have allowed some courtroom proceedings in a high-profile music piracy case to be streamed over the Internet. The three-judge Appeals
Published on: April 20th, 2009 Jaikumar Vijayan @itbusinessca