Open source software usage has become quite pervasive and its use is growing rapidly. The infrastructure of the Internet (e.g., mail transports, web servers, and FTP servers) is largely based on open source applications. In fact, everybody who sends email or uses the web is using open source software all the time. A few of the best known examples of open source software are the Linux Operating System, Apache Web Server and mySQL database.

The SEC has issued final rules modifying and significantly advancing the registration, communications, and offering processes under the Securities Act of 1933 (Securities Act). Issued on July 19, 2005, the new rules eliminate restrictions on offerings that many have come to see as unnecessary and outmoded.

In response to the prevalence of email in today's business world, many companies have implemented policies regulating the use of company e-mail systems. This regulation is predicated on a variety of concerns including the potential liability arising from an employee's illegal use of these resources, the promotion of productivity and efficiency within a company, and privacy considerations.

Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit strongly reaffirmed a patentee's obligation to provide a written description in a patent to comply with the written description requirement of 35 U.S.C. §112 ¶1.

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has now released updated methodology for determining its Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ) of public companies. Changes to its prior methodology were considered necessary in order to conform the CGQ rating system with governance practices mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and also to remove certain criteria that ISS no longer considers relevant.

The Internal Revenue Service (the Service) has issued reproposed regulations governing the character and source of income derived from communications activities conducted in space and international waters as well as income derived from international communication activities.

Over the past 20 years or so, courts have developed an extensive and conflicting body of "advertising injury" case law, as judges have struggled to delineate the scope of coverage that commercial general liability (CGL) policies provide for intellectual property claims. , the advertising injury coverage in standard-form CGL policies that policyholders are buying today is not the same coverage that is described in almost any court decision on the books. Current case law is useful for understandin

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