New technologies are enabling individuals and organizations to communicate at higher speeds and through a variety of media. Contracts are completed every day instantly through a variety of electronic media. Computers and communications technologies are transforming the way companies conducted business worldwide.
Computer law is the practice of law as related to computers.
Intellectual property is becoming more and more a primary focus in this area of law. It was a relief to get out into the night air after three hours of listening to the fine points of tax, while sitting in in a room that was ten degrees too hot. We walked to the subway with an elderly attorney. We told him we worked in the area of computer law. In a professorial tone, he told us to tell him the difference between intellectual property and computer law.