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Computer software
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LawSites
LawToolBox in Running for Office App People’s Choice Award
The deadline calculator application LawToolBox is in the running for a 2017 Office App People's Choice Award -- notable because, of the nine apps in contention, it is the only…
LawSites
Lawyerist Launches Directory of Law Practice Management Platforms
The good news about law practice management software is that recent years have brought a variety of systems to the market. The bad news is that choosing one can be…
Legal Ease Blog
Productivity Tool Trello Being Acquired – Will It Become Even More Useful?
In my Simple Steps column in the January/February 2017 issue of Law Practice magazine, "Get Your To-Do Lists Under Control with These Productivity Tools," I talk about Trello. Launched five…
LawSites
Rocket Matter Rolls Out a Top-to-Bottom Redesign of its User Interface
[gallery columns="2" link="file" size="large" ids="12131,12132"] The cloud-based practice management platform Rocket Matter today rolled out a complete, top-to-bottom redesign of its user interface -- its first full redesign since it…
HIPAA & Health Information Technology
Six Tips for Providers to Reduce the Risk of Obtaining Unreliable HIPAA Compliance and Protection Software
Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I had a recent conversation with our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch who quoted us in her Medical Practice Compliance Alert article, “Beware False Promises…
SALT Shaker
Technical Support: Tennessee Publishes Guidance on Sales Tax Treatment of Computer Software Maintenance Contracts
By Chris Mehrmann and Charlie Kearns The Tennessee Department of Revenue has issued guidance explaining that the retail sale of, use of, or subscription to a computer software maintenance contract…
SALT Shaker
Bad Day for California as TTA Sales Tax Exemption for Software Is Broadly Reaffirmed by Appellate Court – Will Taxpayer Refund Claims Now Move?
In a significant rebuff of the California State Board of Equalization (BOE), the California Second District Court of Appeal held that a manufacturer’s sale of software on tangible media was…
The Trade Practitioner
UK Export Control Organisation Guidance on Intrusion Software Controls
The UK Export Control Organisation issued a guidance note explaining the intrusion software controls. To fall within the definition of intrusion software, the software must be specifically designed or modified…
PTABWatch
Digital Rights Patent Declared Patent Eligible Under DDR Holdings
Prior to the Federal Circuit’s opinion in DDR Holdings, LLC v. Hotels.com, L.P., 773 F.3d 1245 (Fed. Cir. 2014), software and Internet patents seemed on a relentless march towards ineligibility. …
Tech Law Blog
Source Code Escrow – Case Law Developments
By John Whelan
Those involved in technology deals express differing views on source code escrow. These views range from resignation that the supplier won't agree to it to the view that even if…