Practice Areas & Industries: Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

Practice/Industry Group 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.

Services Available

"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