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      Our firm emphasizes internet litigation, intellectual property litigation (including trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, and patents), internet law, startups, complex business litigation, class actions, videogame law, business law, blockchain law, employment litigation, consumer protection litigation, and personal injury/tort litigation.

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      Our firm emphasizes intellectual property litigation (including trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, and patents), internet law, startups, complex business litigation, class actions, videogame law, business law, blockchain law, employment litigation, consumer protection litigation, and personal injury/tort litigation. We are actively involved in cutting edge electronic discovery ("e-discovery") matters and Ira P. Rothken is an active member of the Sedona Conference and maintains a blog at Moredata.com on electronic discovery and evidence issues for legal professionals. Here is a CNET News Story Profiling Ira P. Rothken's Career Protecting Internet Technology Companies.

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      We Have Assisted in the Startup of Some of the Most Successful E-Commerce and Electronic Entertainment Companies in the World

      Ira P. RothkenIn addition to our robust litigation practice we assist electronic entertainment, high technology, and e-commerce companies in their business, startup, and legal transactions. For example, since the inception of the "commercialized" internet in the mid 1990s, we have represented some of the largest and most successful web sites in the world on a huge range of matters from startup issues to risk reduction strategies to e-commerce policies and agreements. In many instances we were called upon to handle issues where there was no clear precedent and thus we had to innovate a solution.

      We have also helped start numerous successful electronic entertainment and videogame companies including Nihilistic Software, Pandemic Games, Telltale, and Arenanet. Ira P. Rothken, a member of IGDA, has spoken multiple times on how to start a videogame development company at the Computer Game Developers Conference (CGDC). Here is a sample of videogame development transactions in which we assisted our clients:


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      Saturday
      Nov012008

      The Sedona Conference® Commentary on Preservation, Management and Identification of Sources of Information that are Not Reasonably Accessible

      The Sedona Conference® Working Group 1 recently published a Commentary on the issues of preserving, managing, and identifying not reasonably accessible electronically stored information or “NRA ESI". The result is a five-step framework for analysis and six Guidelines for making reasonable, good-faith assessments where no “bright line” rules exist. Ira P. Rothken is a co-editor of the above Sedona Conference Publication entitled Commentary on Preservation, Management and Identification of Sources of Information that are Not Reasonably Accessible.which can be downloaded here and here is a web seminar  on the topic. Here is an excerpt of Ira P. Rothken discussing technical factors to consider in determing whether e-discovery related data is "not reasonably accessible."
        

      Wednesday
      Oct082008

      MindFuse raising money for casual massively multiplayer online game

      Most massively multiplayer online (MMO) games focus on hardcore gamers, but MindFuse is building a high-end MMO for casual audiences.

      The idea is to create a rich 3-D world that is easy to learn and which can be enjoyed without huge time commitments. Players can play for a shorter time compared with time sinks like “World of Warcraft.” Ira Rothken helped start MindFuse and he assisted in raising seed money for the company. You can read more at VentureBeat.

      Thursday
      Jul242008

      Torrentspy Appeals MPAA Wiretap Case

      Torrentspy has appealed the federal "wiretap" case against the Motion Picture Association of America to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals involving allegations that the MPAA paid a hacker $15,000 dollars in return for use of emails obtained by unauthorized computer access and automated interception. The case is Bunnell v. Motion Picture Association of America. The redacted brief can be found here. Here is a story from CNET News and the Washington Post on the appeal.
      Friday
      May302008

      In a Denial of Service outage, has Hollywood gone too far?

      According to CNET a company named Revision3 that legitimately distributes its video programming via peer-to-peer systems is shut down for three days after being inundated with traffic. The likely cause was a company paid by the major movie studios and record labels to fight piracy. According to Ira Rothken "It's ironic for a company that is supposed to be helping major Hollywood organizations in getting legal compliance, that they would use techniques that at least optically appear to be in violation of the law."

      Wednesday
      Apr022008

      Federal Judge citing CDA immunity throws out multiple claims against large dating site

      From an article in TheDartmouth: a Jane Doe plaintiff is suing in Federal Court an online dating site powered by Friendfinder related to a profile posted by a site user. The case arises out of an alleged feigned profile posted by a member that allegedly used her personal information next to a nude photo of another female. The profile was allegedly created by someone using the Dartmouth College network in 2005. The woman, who filed the suit under the pseudonym “Jane Doe,” claims the fictitious profile was posted for over a year before a friend brought it to her attention. A federal judge threw out five of the woman’s claims because internet sites are protected under a federal law known as the Communications Decency Act or CDA from liability for false postings by others, but allowed two to stand in an order handed down recently.