A famous (and surprisingly prescient) New Yorker cartoon from July 1993 depicts a dog, sitting at a computer, talking to another dog. The caption reads: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”[FOOTNOTE 1]
To the delight of some and the chagrin of others, anonymity remains the hallmark of the internet nearly 20 years later. Intellectual property lawyers, more often than not, unfortunately find themselves in the latter camp. Although anonymity is, in many ways, the “default mode” of internet communication, New York lawyers have certain tools for piercing that veil in appropriate litigation contexts.
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