A number of settlements and jury awards in the past several years have generated widely disparate, and sometimes breathtakingly high, awards in patent infringement cases. At the same time, courts have failed to provide consistent and concrete standards for valuing an infringer's use of an...

During the last decade both US and Europe have regulated internet service providers liability (hereinafter referred to as ISPs). In 1998, the Congress has approved the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which has modified the Copyright Act of 1976, stating that ISPs are not liable if their...