Jonathan Bick

April 26, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

Pursuing nuisance-law injunctions is an innovative way to curb bad acts on the Internet

By Jonathan Bick

7 minute read

August 24, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

E-commerce merchants, like their medieval predecessors, often use their own lex mercatoria, or merchant law, in lieu of traditional law.

By Jonathan Bick

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December 29, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

As worldwide Internet use grows, international Internet legal difficulties increase.

By Jonathan Bick

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October 20, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

One resolution to the legal difficulties raised by e-commerce has been the use of online dispute resolution processes -- the application of Internet-related technologies such as e-mail, Web sites, chat rooms and e-messaging to resolve disputes that arise from Internet transactions.

By Jonathan Bick

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July 22, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey District Court`s recent application of copyright law to an Internet transaction extended the subject matter covered by the statute, but it did so by relying on conventional copyright doctrines.

By Jonathan Bick

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March 07, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Recently, the parent of a deceased child sought access to that child's Yahoo! e-mail account and Yahoo! refused to give the parent access. The novel characteristics of e-mail will likely result in an untraditional outcome of the Yahoo! matter.

By Jonathan Bick

7 minute read

September 22, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Abusive use of social networking user names allows a third party to benefit from the goodwill byproduct endorsement and such abusive behavior constitutes intellectual property infringement.

By Jonathan Bick

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September 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Karen Berger, an Internet lawyer in West Orange, N.J., and Jonathan Bick, of counsel to Brach Eichler and an adjunct professor at Pace Law School and Rutgers Law School, review cases regarding the enforceability of browse-wrap agreements, which are increasingly replacing click-wrap agreements that required users to affirm acceptance of a site's terms of use by clicking on a button. One plausible reading of the cases, they write, is that courts in browse-wrap issues show greater solicitude to consumers than to businesses, and will enforce browse-wraps primarily in business-to-business rather than business-to-consumer transactions.

By Karen Berger and Jonathan Bick

7 minute read

January 11, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

To avoid legal difficulties, a blogger should clearly define the intent of the blog.

By Jonathan Bick

7 minute read

December 09, 2003 | Law.com

Although legislation has been enacted to address cybersquatting, e-exploitation of trademarks is still a problem for trademark holders. As in the case of traditional unlawful trademark exploitation, the threshold question is whether there is a likelihood of confusion and whether there is dilution. Unfortunately, these questions are difficult to answer simply by applying traditional trademark doctrines.

By Jonathan Bick

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