Overview
Doing Innovative Work with Innovative Clients
Fredrikson & Byron's Internet, Technology & E-Commerce practice serves businesses ranging from Internet start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations, and from ISPs to ASPs. Our Internet, Technology & E-Commerce Group members include lawyers with practices in intellectual property, commercial law, tax, securities and finance, advertising, telecommunications, employment, litigation, banking, and international law. We are experienced with new media, fluent in the technical vocabularies of the digital environment. We monitor the rapidly changing international, national, and local laws and regulations affecting the on-line world. We use our knowledge and resources to guide both new and established businesses through a myriad of e-commerce issues, from protecting their intellectual property from on-line dilution and cybersquatters to establishing Web-based business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications.
Providing the legal knowledge you expect, and the vision you hoped for.”
At Fredrikson & Byron, we pride ourselves on being the place where law and business meet. Our goal is to serve our existing clients with foresight and ingenuity. We enjoy doing innovative work with innovative clients.
The Internet, Technology & E-Commerce Group offers a full range of services, including work in the following areas:
Financing
- Public and private financing
- Seed and venture capital financing
- Initial public offerings
Intellectual Property Protection
- Domain name choice and protection
- Advertising issues
- Software patenting
- Software licensing
- Trademark protection
- On-line agreement
- User rules and regulations
- International intellectual property protection
Web Site Agreements
- Web site development and design contracts
- Hosting and co-location contracts
- Content licensing
- Linking and portal agreements
- Sponsorship agreements
- Co-branding agreements
- Application service provider agreements
- User terms and condition of use and sale
- Data exchange agreements
- On-line agreements
Email and Internet Use Policies
- Security issues
- Privacy issues
- Employment matters
- Immigration/export issues
Corporate
- Tax matters
- Risk management
- Distribution and fulfillment issues
- Outsourcing agreements
- Choice of entity issues
- International corporate issues
- General corporate governance
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
- Internet chat room defamation
- Patent infringement
- Copyright infringement
- Trademark infringement
- Deceptive advertising & trademark dilution
- Unfair competition
- Trade secret and confidentiality
- Domain name disputes
- Cybersquatting
- Trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings
- Contract & warranty
- Licensing
- Employment
- Tax disputes
Practice Alerts
To keep our innovative clients apprised of the legal developments that can affect them most, attorneys in the firm’s Internet, Technology & E-Commerce and Advertising, Marketing & Trademark groups post the latest legal cases and alerts.
How Not To Be a Literary Agent
May 14, 2013, Posted by Paul Thomas
Do We Need a License to Look?
May 1, 2013, Posted by Paul Thomas
Copyright Fair Use Decision Doesn’t Seem Terribly Fair
April 30, 2013, Posted by John Pickerill
Certification Revoked for Two Electronic Health Record (EHR.) Providers.
Contract Protections and Defenses for Customers
April 29, 2013, Posted by Steve Helland
Can Tweets Improve Liquidity?
April 26, 2013, Posted by Public Companies Group
Click here to view other alerts.
Bios
Primary Attorneys
Steven E. Helland, Chair
Dean R. Karau
Ann M. Ladd
Ryan G. Miest
Carrie L. Rosenberry
Kevin S. Spreng
Asmah Tareen
David C. West
Todd E. Zimmerman
Supporting Attorneys
Caroline G. Chicoine
Karen L. Grandstrand
Patrick J. Kelly
Jessica D. Manivasager
John S. Parzych
Charles D. Segelbaum