Richard Raysman

June 08, 2010 | Legaltech News

Holland & Knight partner Richard Raysman and Baker & Hostetler partner Peter Brown observe that the expanding online marketplace provides many benefits, such as free access to dynamic web content and social media portals, but raises many questions and concerns about consumer privacy.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

12 minute read

May 13, 2002 | New York Law Journal

A n employee of a corporation receives an e-mail from an unrecognized e-mail address, with an attachment and a subject line of "fwd: Joke" or "Here is the document you requested." Innocently, the employee opens the message, only to learn that the attachment is a computer virus that has just invaded the employee`s computer and has begun to delete files from the employee`s hard drive. The virus has also forwarded itself to the first 50 e-mail addresses in the employee`s online address book, surreptitiously aw

By Richard Raysman And Peter Brown

12 minute read

March 11, 2002 | New York Law Journal

T he Internet and the World Wide Web are all about hypertext linking. Linking enables users to obtain information from remote sources almost instantly with the click of a mouse and jump seamlessly from one item of information to the next, outside conventional limitations on time and space. Hypertext linking also may operate beyond an information provider`s ability to control access to and presentation of the provider`s content by unaffiliated third parties. As a result, hypertext linking implicates intellec

By Richard Raysman And Peter Brown

11 minute read

May 11, 2011 | Legaltech News

The Federal Circuit ruled in January that the "25 percent rule of thumb" standard used by damages experts in patent infringement cases for calculating a reasonable royalty was "fundamentally flawed." The court's ruling has important implications for both existing and future patent damage litigation, but isn't the only notable patent damages decision of the past year.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

11 minute read

September 10, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman, a partner at Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, and Peter Brown, a partner at Baker & Hostetler, write that the growth and sophistication of e-commerce sites, online auctions, and search engine sponsored advertisements has increased the possibilities of infringing activities, with trademarks being increasingly more susceptible to impermissible use, copying and linking.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

15 minute read

May 12, 2003 | New York Law Journal

By Richard Raysman And Peter Brown

10 minute read

November 13, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, partners at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, write that the right to examine the contents of an opponent's computer hard drive has been categorized as unusual relief, yet can prove valuable during the discovery process. Nonetheless, under the Federal Rules, courts will not, as a matter of course, grant a party's demand routinely.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

11 minute read

November 12, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman, a partner at Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, and Peter Brown, a partner at Baker & Hostetler, write: Earlier this year, the last of the four major music labels offered its respective catalog for digital download to Amazon.com's music service in the MP3 format with no digital copy protections, giving users the ability to freely transfer songs to any portable MP3 music player. Afterwards, it was said that digital rights management was dead in the music business. However, despite the obituary written for DRM by some, it remains, in differing forms, a continuing part of the new distribution of media as music streaming and downloading services, as well as video sharing Web sites, continue to grow in popularity.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

14 minute read

October 15, 2007 | Legaltech News

As offshore outsourcing keeps pace with Internet technology and faster, reliable global telecommunications, attorneys Richard Raysman and Peter Brown warn firms to keep a careful watch on anti-outsourcing legislation that may present practical challenges and new legal requirements.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

8 minute read

February 13, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, partners at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, discuss pretexting generally, recently enacted federal and state antipretexting laws and existing consumer and privacy laws that may apply to the practice, as well as other issues that these laws raise.

By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown

8 minute read