February 2007

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First Life bills itself as a 3D Analog World. It makes ambitious claims about the users’ ability to ‘work, reproduce and perish.’ There does not seem to be a terms of service agreement, suggesting that users would have to rely upon the court system for intellectual property protection, a distinct disadvantage compared to, for example,

Our Firm recently represented an IP owner who alleged that goods sold
by defendant infringed its rights. A complaint was
filed in federal court. The matter was ultimately settled on
favorable terms.
A matter such as this is amendable to being handled on a ‘hybrid’ billing basis. In such an
arrangement, representation is on a

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MIT Ad Lab: The advent of Internet-based flight tracking technology enables an entirely new kind of skywriting. Gulfstream Aerospace sent up one of their $50M business jets today on an 8.5-hour test flight spanning 11 states for the sole purpose of leaving their mark on the Net in the form of a flight track