The US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) at §§ 1201-1203 makes it illegal to circumvent technological protection measures in software or technology which protects underlying intellectual property. Today the Library of Congress has ruled that this prohibition does not apply to iPhone “jailbreaking.”
“Jailbreaking” is a term which describes the process of hacking a phone’s operating …
iPhone Hacking No Longer Illegal
New Massive Tax Reporting Burden for Small Businesses
The March 2010 health care reform bill includes a new mandate which requires that, by 2012, businesses begin to issue 1099 forms to all vendors to whom they had paid a minimum of $600 during a given tax year. Naturally such a requirement would force many small businesses to devote more hours and manpower (not …
Bukher & Associates welcomes Anthony H. Handal
Tony is Of Counsel to the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group and one of the most experienced intellectual property litigators in the United States. He focuses his practice on patent, trademark and copyright trial and appellate work. An experienced engineer who conceived the first digital data compression system while a University researcher under Project Apollo, …