Business Organization, Intellectual Property

What A Tax Attorney Can Do for You: Understand How Apple, Inc. Legally Does Not Pay Income Tax

by Anthony Diosdi | Moskowitz LLP on 5/22/2013

When Apple Inc., disclosed that it has not paid any corporate income tax over the past 4 years, it got the government’s attention. Hailed before the Senate, Apple is confident in their tax position because, it is legal. ...more

United States Supreme Court Victory for St. Louis-Based Monsanto

by Williams Venker & Sanders on 5/16/2013

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, has held in favor of Monsanto on a patent infringement suit arising from the St. Louis-based company's Roundup Ready soybean seeds. Monsanto invented and patented a genetic...more

What’s Really in your Beer Name: Trademark Protection for Craft Brewing Companies and Their Beers

by Evan Pappas on 5/15/2013

Besides the unique taste of your beer, what more than anything else helps your consumers remember the source of that fantastic beer? Obviously, your company name and probably also the name of your beer. With hundreds of...more

Intellectual Property and Your Startup (Presentation)

by Scott Cromar, Russell Jeide | Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP on 5/13/2013

Knobbe Martens’ patent attorneys Russell Jeide and Scott Cromar hosted a seminar series on intellectual property basics for Temecula’s business community. This presentation is from the first class giving a basic overview of...more

Free e-Book of Legal Audit: Internet & Cyber Laws for Website | Checklist: Do’s & Don’ts while doing Web (Internet) Based Business

by Rahul Dev on 5/11/2013

Introduction With the ever changing advent of Internet law, it is very crucial to ensure the legal compliance of a website and get it audited from an internet lawyer. Various components of a website, including, Terms and...more

Capital Infusion: Private Equity Update - May 2013

by Sean Clancy, Adam Connatser, Lindsay Faine, Jon Finger, Rani Hauth Guerra, J. Atwood Jeter, Robert Johnston III, Amy Kaufman, David McLean, Ryan Mitchell, George Schutzer, Akash Sethi | Patton Boggs LLP on 5/8/2013

In This Issue: - DIGGING DEEPER: A Guide to Health Care Regulatory Due Diligence in Private Equity Deals 1 - Policy Spotlight: Affordable Care Act 6 - Case Spotlight: Best Practices in Down-Round Financings &...more

Carrying on Business in Canada

by Heenan Blaikie LLP on 5/3/2013

In This Publication: - Preface - General Information - Immigration - Investment Factors - Intellectual Property - Principal Forms of Business Entities - Taxation -...more

Taking On The Internet For Your Client's Reputation

by Samuel Apicelli, Christiane Campbell | Duane Morris LLP on 4/30/2013

My cell phone rings at 6:30 on a Friday evening. It's the CEO of a client company and she is panicked. Hysterical. It turns out she was doing some "old-fashioned" investigating by performing Google searches on herself and the...more

Inside M&A - Spring 2013

by Joseph S. Adams, Robert Clary II, Thomas P. Conaghan, Jeffrey Holdvogt, Joanne Ludovici, Jennifer Mikulina, Jeffrey Rothschild, Jake Townsend, Jeffrey Wagner | McDermott Will & Emery on 4/30/2013

Top Five Traps for the Unwary in Spin-Offs - A wave of corporate breakups has swept through the United States over the last few years as investors have taken notice of the fact that smaller companies focused on a...more

Don't Just Patent Everything, You Need To Have A Strategy

by Antonia Sequeira | Fenwick & West LLP on 4/29/2013

You can't patent it all. Inventors often want to patent every potentially novel detail of their technologies and patent attorneys are sometimes willing to help them do it. However, this type of unfocused, shotgun approach...more

Always Be Prepared: Forecasting a Business Partner's Financial Problems and How to Prepare

by Christopher Giaimo, Donald Workman | BakerHostetler on 4/19/2013

As the American economy continues to slog through the ongoing Great Recession, even financially sound companies face challenges due to the continued economic malaise. In particular, a company that works with suppliers,...more

The UK Patent Box – Clawing Some Money Back from the Taxman

by Anne Campbell, David Wraige | Mintz Levin - Intellectual Property on 4/18/2013

As of April 1st, companies paying UK corporation tax can take advantage of a new tax regime, dubbed the “Patent Box,” to reduce their tax burden. Here we explain why this new regime has been put in place and how and why it...more

Why Legal and Marketing Conflict on How to Choose a Trademark

by Donna Ray Berkelhammer | Sands Anderson PC on 4/10/2013

If you work with startups as I do, one of the first issues is choosing the company or product name. I have worked with countless marketing companies that advised their clients to “be descriptive” when selecting the...more

BLG Monthly Update for April 2013

by Neil Guthrie on 4/10/2013

Bird deaths, contracts cases, Lindsay Lohan, IP and more in the BLG Monthly Update for April 2013...more

Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part One) [Video]

by Robert Brownstone | Fenwick & West LLP on 3/19/2013

With data security breaches dominating the headlines and a rising number of employees taking advantage of BYOD, or bring your own device to work policies, businesses have found themselves vulnerable to targets by hackers,...more

New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement Announces Temporary Adoption of Regulations for Fantasy Sports Tournaments in Atlantic...

by Ian Imrich on 3/18/2013

The New Jersey DGE regulations on fantasy sports games (N.J.A.C. 13:69 P ) can be found at: http://www.nj.gov/oag/ge/temporaryorders.html ...more

Delaware Court Rules That a Reverse Triangular Merger Does Not Constitute an Assignment By Operation of Law of the Surviving...

by BakerHostetler on 3/11/2013

The Delaware Court of Chancery in Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC v. Roche Diagnostics GmbH (Feb. 22, 2013), ruled that under Delaware law a reverse triangular merger did not violate a provision in a license agreement of the...more

Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part Two) [Video]

by Fenwick & West LLP on 3/10/2013

?Are you looking to guard your company's “secret sauce?” Fenwick’s Robert Brownstone says companies should safeguard their data by limiting the number of employees with access to certain confidential information. Following up...more

How to Be Anti-Troll Without Being Antitrust: A Six-Step Primer

by Jesse Jenike-Godshalk, Ria Schalnat | Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on 3/6/2013

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently addressed whether a “patent aggregator” (a.k.a. “anti-troll”), which is an organization formed by operating companies to protect against “non-practicing...more

CA SB 678 (Correa) Authorization and Regulation of Internet Poker and Consumer Protection Act of 2013

by Ian Imrich on 2/22/2013

An act to add Chapter 5.2 (commencing with Section 19990) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to gambling. Legislative Counsel’s Digest: Senate Bill No. 678, as introduced, Correa, February 22,...more

You Must Start Your Campaign To Complain About A Generic Top Level Domain by March 13

by Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. on 2/20/2013

The window for objecting to the approximately 1,900 new Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) applications that are being considered for introduction to the Internet domain name system closes on March 13, 2013. The objection...more

W.L. Gore’s Impact on Pending Maryland Cases and Audits

by Stephen Blazick, Alexandra Sampson | Reed Smith on 2/15/2013

In a case decided late last month, Comptroller of the Treasury v. Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc. and Future Value, Inc., Nos. 1696 and 1697 (January 24, 2013), the Maryland Court of Special Appeals held that patent royalties...more

Three Key Data Retention Questions [Video]

by Robert Brownstone | Fenwick & West LLP on 1/22/2013

Your company has been sued – what do you need to consider to comply with data preservation requirements? How do you address litigation holds, ediscovery and data retention? Robert Brownstone, litigation attorney and chair of...more

Skadden's 2013 Insights: Corporate Restructuring

by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/21/2013

The global reach of capital markets, financial difficulties in the eurozone and the multinational nature of many businesses and financial institutions have increased the importance of understanding legal, business and other...more

Countdown to The Introduction of The New Patent Box Regime

by Désirée Fields, Tom Scott, Hiroshi Sheraton | McDermott Will & Emery on 1/21/2013

From 1 April 2013, UK companies will be able to elect into a new regime that applies a lower rate of corporation tax to profits from qualifying intellectual property (IP) rights. The relief will be phased in, culminating on...more

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What A Tax Attorney Can Do for You: Understand How Apple, Inc. Legally Does Not Pay Income Tax

United States Supreme Court Victory for St. Louis-Based Monsanto

What’s Really in your Beer Name: Trademark Protection for Craft Brewing Companies and Their Beers

Intellectual Property and Your Startup (Presentation)

Free e-Book of Legal Audit: Internet & Cyber Laws for Website | Checklist: Do’s & Don’ts while doing Web (Internet) Based Business

Capital Infusion: Private Equity Update - May 2013

Carrying on Business in Canada

Taking On The Internet For Your Client's Reputation

Inside M&A - Spring 2013

Don't Just Patent Everything, You Need To Have A Strategy

Always Be Prepared: Forecasting a Business Partner's Financial Problems and How to Prepare

The UK Patent Box – Clawing Some Money Back from the Taxman

Why Legal and Marketing Conflict on How to Choose a Trademark

BLG Monthly Update for April 2013

Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part One) [Video]

New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement Announces Temporary Adoption of Regulations for Fantasy Sports Tournaments in Atlantic...

Delaware Court Rules That a Reverse Triangular Merger Does Not Constitute an Assignment By Operation of Law of the Surviving...

Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part Two) [Video]

How to Be Anti-Troll Without Being Antitrust: A Six-Step Primer

CA SB 678 (Correa) Authorization and Regulation of Internet Poker and Consumer Protection Act of 2013

You Must Start Your Campaign To Complain About A Generic Top Level Domain by March 13

W.L. Gore’s Impact on Pending Maryland Cases and Audits

Three Key Data Retention Questions [Video]

Skadden's 2013 Insights: Corporate Restructuring

Countdown to The Introduction of The New Patent Box Regime

Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part One) [Video]

Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part Two) [Video]

Three Key Data Retention Questions [Video]

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