Secrets have special standing in Israeli law. As the Supreme Court has stated: "There are those who view the trade secret as property... and others view it as 'quasi-property' or a proprietary interest... Nevertheless, it would appear that everyone accepts that the trade secret does 'exist' in law and that the law provides means to protect against its exploitation without ...
Alongside its traditional military and defence applications, encryption is used in modern communications to encode cellular phone calls; for the security of information sent from Internet browsers to e-commerce sites; the protection of intellectual property in computer files; the management of virtual networks that link remote sites by the Internet; the verification of contracting parties' identities; the security of computer ...
On 16th September 1999 the Clinton Administration announced a new, far more lenient export policy in respect of encryption commodities. After years during which the American security agencies had claimed that the free export of means of encryption would endanger national security and had required encryption programs to leave a "back door" through which they could access the hidden information, ...
In the first decision of its type, in MF 54749/99, OM 10909/99, Cellcom Israel Ltd v. T.M. Aquanet Computer Communications Ltd et al, the Tel Aviv District Court last week considered the relationship between trademarks and Internet domain names. The decision was awarded by His Honour Judge Yehuda Zafet on an application for a temporary injunction. Its result was the ...
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