Ifrah Law – Nicole Kardell – Are you an American abroad living in perpetual fear of the IRS? Do you wake up every morning wondering if today you’ll receive a formidable notice that the taxman cometh? You are not alone. Expats around the world are facing (and fearing) the painful reality that the IRS’s global […]
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Snell & Wilmer – Jennifer R Phillips – Same-sex spousal rights, particularly in the area of employment law, are in a state of flux. This conundrum will hopefully be resolved later this year when the U.S. Supreme Court issues a ruling on a collection of four cases concerning the power of the states to ban
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Mike Young is an internet law specialist and principal in MikeYoungLaw who assists entrepreneurs and internet companies. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), relying upon a 1934 law, just dumped 400 pages of regulatory crap on Internet businesses and users under the guise of “Net Neutrality.” Think of it of as Obamacare for the Internet.
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Cooley LLP Introduction: currencies, money and e-money1 A virtual currency is “a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a central bank or public authority nor necessarily attached to a [fiat currency]2, but is used by … persons as a means of exchange and can be transferred, stored or traded electronically”. A virtual
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Foley & Lardner – Yesterday marked the sunrise launch of the .porn and .adult generic top-level domains (gTLDs), which join .xxx in the top-level domain name space as gTLDs targeted mainly at online purveyors of adult entertainment. As with .xxx, the introduction of these adult-themed gTLDs presents yet another annoyance for trademark owners already fatigued
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Fisher & Phillips – Clarence Belnavis – From Investors Business Daily – Valentine’s Day is a time for love, and love happens for coworkers just as it does for anyone else. People spend more time at work than anywhere else, so romances are bound to crop up. Rather than prohibit them or look the other
Lock Lorde Edwards – David Anderson – On January 27, 2015, the FTC released its Staff Report on the so-called “Internet of Things” (IoT) – the ability of everyday objects (from refrigerators to wearable devices) to connect to the Internet and send and receive data. In addition to the Staff Report, the FTC released a guidance
Polsinelli – Trademark rights arise out of use in commerce, and can provide protection for your name, brand, and reputation in the community provided, that the marks are continuously used in connection with your goods or services. While brands change over time, whether the result of re-branding or through mergers or other acquisitions, it is
Polsinelli – Arbitration is sometimes touted as less expensive and less risky for businesses than traditional courtroom litigation, especially when it comes to consumer disputes. But disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong’s most recent legal loss exposes some of the risks that face those who elect to arbitrate their disputes rather than go to court. The Armstrong
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Follow Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP – Earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade held a hearing during which there was a discussion of a Congressional proposal for a federal data breach statute. Currently, there are 47 different state data breach notification laws, with seven states introducing a
