Global corporate nomenclature is making history, right now, as ICANN gTLD platform opens with full swing, the established and largest name brands of the world are now pitted against the newest, recently incubated,globally poised but relatively unknown name brands.

Nowadays, a great percentage of a business communications is conducted through e-mail. E-mails may be erroneously sent to an unintended recipient, which could even be a business competitor. What happens if our business competitor erroneously receives e-mails with business proposals sent to our business? Under this scenario, can we file a lawsuit against our competitor alleging conversion? [More..]

Social networks are an excellent way to communicate with friends and clients, but people should use them with previous reading of the “Miranda” warning; this is the writer’s opinion. Indeed, everything you say/post in a social network may be used against you in future court proceedings. The United States courts are leaning towards allowing discovery of information stored in social networks, even information not accessible to the public in general.

Intellectual property laws, particularly copyrights and trademarks, became a fundamental topic for Internet dealings. Fortunately, most countries around the world are signatories to the major intellectual property treaties that uniformly address these legal issues, making it simple for international and Internet transactions. Indeed, Japan is signatory to the Nice Agreement and the Trademark Law Treaty, and a contracting party to the Madrid Agreement Protocol concerning the International Registration of Marks of March 14, 2000.

Many may agree with the statement that the United States is the country of lawsuits. In Europe and Latin America -where most countries have civil law systems,- there is no much litigation frenzy as in the United States; particularly against big packet defendants –it means, big companies. In some cases these lawsuits are noteworthy because they help establish principles of law and community rights; yet, in other cases they seem to be a 'fund raising' campaign. This article informs on a class action lawsuit against Apple Inc.

The curtain rises on January 12th, 2012, but key players are still singing different tunes.

The development of business models through the Internet has not ceased. We are at the verge of innovative e-commerce models now built on social networking platforms. What is to come? This article informs about a Swiss research study that predicts a new e-business model based on social networking platforms such as Facebook.

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Last century business names were colorfully dressed with uniquely stylized lettering, colorful logos, slogans and contextual support.

The word GTLD has been added to the hardcore lexicon of global brfanding. Why is this new spin causing vertigo to some?

In the competitive business community of the 21 Century, technological and business innovations are very likely to be imitated. The improvement of innovations and development of new business models is not per se a bad thing. Yet, a straightforward copy or imitation of an e-business must definitely face intellectual property rights before it can reap any benefit. Facebook, for instance, is one of the greatest e-business inventions of these times. But, Facebook has had imitators that have faced legal challenges when trying to develop similar social platforms.