Practice Areas & Industries: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The internet has rapidly evolved as a new conduit for sales, marketing, communications, and business transactions. The convenience of the Internet has stimulated significant business activity, which, in turn, has resulted in legal issues in an extensive range of areas. Fulbright's e-commerce practice group has gained extensive experience in the full gamut of e-commerce issues.

Information technology has evolved rapidly over the past decade and is one of the hottest business drivers in the new millennium. Fulbright's information technology practice group is one of the nation's largest and the knowledge of our attorneys is highly diverse. This practice group is dedicated to delivering timely, well-informed, and practical legal advice to both vendors and users of information technology.

Services Available

Fulbright's depth of experience makes us uniquely suited to provide a wide range of legal consultation services unique to e-commerce issues. In conjunction with our intellectual property and technology practice, information technology practice group, and technology and emerging companies practice group, the E-Commerce Group has successfully handled:

• Patent applications related to unique and novel business method practices
• Various domain name disputes before authorized arbitration bodies and courts
• Business method patent litigation
• Trademark issues
• Contracting and signatory issues
• Defamation and privacy questions
• Breach of warranty issues
• Other related e-commerce issues

Members of Fulbright's information technology practice group apply their knowledge not only to IT businesses, but also to the many non-technology companies that encounter problems linked to technology. In search of resolutions to these issues, companies call upon Fulbright for IT consultations and guidance. The companies we assist range from traditional businesses to those on the cutting edge of the most advanced technology in the world.