Peter Brown

May 08, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, partners at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, discuss technology transfers generally, highlight various intellectual property laws and treaties that may implicate outsourcing transactions, and address the enforcement of IP rights for customers entering into technology-related outsourcing arrangements.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

11 minute read

August 08, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, partners at Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, write that patent litigation often can be bitter, with the parties engaging in aggressive, or overly aggressive strategies. Parties should be cautioned that in exceptional cases, this can result an award of attorney's fees.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

10 minute read

March 10, 2010 | Law.com

Attorneys Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss the theory of active inducement, in particular its application after the 2005 Supreme Court decision against file-sharing network Grokster, which imported the patent law concept of active inducement of infringement into copyright law.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

14 minute read

July 12, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, partners at Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, write that copyright owners were rightfully buoyed by the opinion in MGM v. Grokster, as the decision provides an important new (or perhaps, rediscovered) avenue for protecting their intellectual property rights, particularly in the most egregious cases in which makers and distributors of technology are purposefully and provably seeking to profit on the infringing acts of users.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

11 minute read

March 11, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, partners at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, write that given their ubiquity, popularity and capabilities, social networking sites have begun to raise unique privacy issues. Indeed, many sites undoubtedly serve as a rich source of personal data to the general public, including, among others, potential employers, legal adversaries and even identity thieves and e-mail address harvesters.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

12 minute read

August 11, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman, a partner at Holland & Knight, and Peter Brown, a partner at Baker & Hostetler, write that in February, President Barack Obama signed a $787 billion economic stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which contains the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) encouraging health care providers to adopt electronic medical records. With billions of dollars allocated toward the digitalization of health care, they say, the era of electronic medical records has begun in earnest.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

13 minute read

January 12, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman, a partner at Holland & Knight, and Peter Brown, a partner at Baker & Hostetler, write that the dispute between graphic artist Shepard Fairey, the creator of the well-known red, white and blue screen-print poster of Barack Obama, and the AP has re-opened the debate concerning what constitutes protectable copyright management information under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - whether it must be related to an automated, technological process or can apply to non-digital copyright information. To date, the issue remains unsettled and courts have expressed a broad range of interpretations.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

11 minute read

February 09, 2011 | Legaltech News

The CAN-SPAM Act provides only a limited private right of action -- only qualified "Internet access providers" can bring actions against violators of the act. Attorneys Richard Raysman and Peter Brown look at what happens when small entities and e-mail service providers attempt to use the act to profit from the receipt of spam.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

11 minute read

March 25, 2008 | Legaltech News

Social networking Web sites have recently received a lot of media coverage, focused on novel privacy issues involving the sites and their members. Now, the "sharing" of members' personal data with marketers has drawn the attention of the FTC, particularly with respect to online behavioral advertising.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

12 minute read

May 13, 2009 | Legaltech News

Blogging by jurors about ongoing trials has trial attorneys monitoring the Web for juror-posted comments that might reveal pretrial bias. Even counsel and judges need to watch whether professional ethical standards impact their own blogging, write Richard Raysman and Peter Brown.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

12 minute read