Ohio's Hamilton County courts high technology; a wide area network will link the many departments of the judicial system in and around Cincinnati

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The Hamilton County court system in Ohio, that serves much of the Cincinnati area, is partway through converting its antiquated, difficult-to-use computer system to a modern one. A case-management system called CMSNet will be at the core of much of the system, which ultimately will extend to a wide-area network serving the entire county. The basic system was complete early this year, and the entire one should be operational in mid-1996. Modest office automation has been among the biggest boons thus far.

Courts, State & Local Courts, Local Area Networks, Ohio, Wide area networks, local, Hamilton County, Ohio

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Trademark cases arise from meta-tags, frames; disputes involve search-engine indexes, Web sites within Web sites, as well as hyperlinking

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The Internet has led to new trademark and unfair competition issues. Domain name disputes appeared in 1996, and other disputes involved HTML linking, meta-tags and framing. Unfair competition involving HTML links can include linking to another's site without permission or in a misleading way. Companies also compete unfairly when they bury the trademarks of better-known competition in meta-tags. Litigation on these kinds of unfair competition has occurred.

Licenses, Patents & Trademarks, Cases, Internet service providers, Web sites (World Wide Web), Web sites, Unfair competition (Commerce), Unfair competition, Intellectual property, Trademarks, HTML (Document markup language)

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Courts begin to CD light on CD briefs; electronic filings give courts exact replicas but occupy less space and permit hypertext linking to cited materials

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Standards for court filings in CD-ROM format have been proposed by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, and federal courts such as the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have started to establish requirements for filings in that format. Acceptance of this format by the legal community would revolutionize their paper-based tradition and make the courts' work easier.

Innovations, CD-ROM databases, Briefs, Legal briefs, Hypertext

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