The explosion of business on the Internet has increased dangers for liability and an ever-expanding potential for the unscrupulous to take advantage of your intellectual property rights. In addition, more and more companies are doing business using the Internet and e-commerce models. You need to know your rights under these agreements in order not to get burned as you move to exploit this developing way of doing business.

Together, Powell Goldstein attorneys have:

• Advised clients on when they can use hypertext links to other sites
• Counseled businesses on when an Internet-implemented business practice is subject to patent protection
• Advised inventors on whether the holder of a registered trademark automatically had rights to a domain name
• Resolved whether a client could post on its web site another company's trademark
• Proved that a party using a client's trademark was engaged in "cybersquatting"