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MacDermid, Inc. v. Deiter, 702 F.3d 725 (2d Cir. 2012)

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Canada, USA
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  • March 25 2013

Plaintiff MacDermid Chemicals ("MacDermid"), a Connecticut company, decided to terminate the employment of Defendant Jackie Deiter, who worked and

Maryland federal court refuses to enforce poorly drafted forum selection clause

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • USA
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  • April 6 2010

In a case that serves as a lesson for drafting forum selection clauses, on 23 February 2010, the US District Court for the District of Maryland determined in Micro Focus, Inc. v. Bell Canada that it could not enforce a forum selection clause that was “nonsensical”

Recent developments for the fourth quarter 2011

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Canada, China, Denmark, European Union, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 15 2012

The end of the year and beginning of a new year is always a busy time for us, as it is for most of our clients

Supreme Court rules against certain government prosecutions in “aggravated identity theft” decision

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 21 2009

On May 4, 2009 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the government’s most aggressive use of the “aggravated identity theft” statute, in Flores-Figueroa v. United States

Court finds that use of single-factor password identification to secure online accounts may create negligence liability

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 28 2009

On 21 August 2009, in the case of Shames-Yeakel v. Citizens Financial Bank, No. 07 C 5387 (N.D. Ill.), the Northern District of Illinois denied, in part, a bank’s motion for summary judgment regarding its customers’ claims that they were damaged because of the bank’s negligent use of single-factor password authentication for online transactions

Federal Trade Commission takes first action under US-EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • USA
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  • September 28 2009

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken its first enforcement action pursuant to the US-EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework (Safe Harbor

New York federal court finds that a computer used to communicate regularly via the internet is a "protected computer" within the meaning of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 15 2009

On 15 October 2009, in the case of Dedalus Foundation v. Banach, a US federal court in the Southern District of New York denied a defendant's motion to dismiss a plaintiff's claims alleging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA

One-year contractual limitations provision for breach of warranty in a software license agreement is enforceable under Missouri law

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 4 2010

On 26 October 2009, in the case of Action Mailing Corp. v. Hewlett-Packard Co., No. 08-0671-CV-W-GAF, a US federal court in the Western District of Missouri held that a one-year contractual limitations provision for breach of warranty is enforceable under Missouri law even though the default limitation period for breach of contract under state law is four years

Software Freedom Conservancy files copyright infringement claim for violation of the GNU General Public License

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • USA
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  • February 15 2010

On 14 December 2009, Plaintiffs, the Software Freedom Conservancy (Software Freedom) and Erik Andersen (Andersen), filed a complaint in US federal court against a number of companies selling electronic products (Defendants) containing embedded open source computer software

Federal court determines that software company infringed open source license by distributing software in violation of license

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 22 2010

On 10 December 2009, in the case of Jacobsen v Katzer, et al, the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment regarding copyright infringement