E-Commerce / Domain Names / Web Site Solutions*

With the explosion of the Internet and other emerging technologies, Jacobs & Associates has used its high-tech expertise and its practical business-transactions background to assist its "Tech-preneur" clients with a number of cutting edge issues. Jacobs & Associates' business practice embodies both creativity and efficiency. Whether a multimillion dollar leveraged buy-out, venture capital investment or a simple incorporation, our business clients receive the responsive attention essential in the business arena.

Our firm's expertise and accomplishments in these fields include:

• Drafting a royalty agreement for a company engaged in online Internet training to establish the standards by which online content providers can assure ownership, distribution rights, copyrights, and traditional intellectual property rights (trademark/copyright) to online Internet content.
• Negotiating strategic marketing agreements with America Online for the provision of online impressions and cooperative cross-marketing of goods and services over the Internet and the parties' Web sites. This agreement addressed Internet-specific issues such as the creation, maintenance and ownership of Web site content, hyperlinks, Web site aesthetics and functionality; online advertising issues such as quantity, quality and placement of online impressions; brand names; consumer privacy; government regulation, and standard financial and legal terms and conditions.
• Evaluating various venture-capital funding opportunities for a software security firm.
• Working with Web site developers, Internet service providers, and "Netpreneurs" to obtain and protect domain names and Web site content. We are frequently called upon to provide advice regarding the recently enacted Domain Name Dispute Policies and the Rules adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO") for the implementation and enforcement of those policies, as well as the Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act regarding trademark infringement, and Lanham Act violations, and have crafted appropriate Web site disclaimers and "click-wrap" licenses to assist online clients to protect their intellectual property and avoid costly disputes.

* Please also see the "What is Internet Law" series of articles for brief descriptions of Internet legal issues.  Additionally, please see "J&A Publications" for papers on Internet law, as well as other practice areas.