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Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 13, 2013, previously published on February 2013 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau believes positive financial decision making should be learned at a young age. The Bureau recently issued a Request for Information Regarding Financial Products Marketed to Students Enrolled in Institutions of Higher Education, seeking information from the...
| | New gTLDs Program: Public Comment Period on "Closed Generic" Top-Level Domains Ends March 7
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 13, 2013, previously published on March 2013 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has been seeking public comments on "closed generic" top-level domain applications and the adoption of specific requirements for this type of application since Feb. 5, 2013, as a result of concerns about the impact on competition and...
| | USPTO Finalizes "First Inventor to File" Rules
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 5, 2013, previously published on February 2013 The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) finalized the rules of practice implementing the "first inventor to file" provision of the America Invents Act (AIA). The rules take effect March 16, 2013. The "first inventor to file" provision at the heart of the AIA brings...
| | New gTLD Program: ICANN Releases String Contention Sets; Posts Date to Open Trademark Clearinghouse
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 5, 2013, previously published on March 2013 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Feb. 26, 2013, released the preliminary list of string similarity contention sets (groups of two or more applications containing identical or visually similar gTLD strings). The list contains few, if any, surprises. ICANN placed all...
| | California Supreme Court: Online Retailers May Require Personal Info for Electronic Downloads
Michael L. Mallow, Michael A. Thurman; Loeb & Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 20, 2013, previously published on February 2013 Online retailers do not violate California's credit card privacy law by requiring consumers to provide personal information, including their addresses and phone numbers, as a condition of accepting credit card payments for electronic downloads, the California Supreme Court ruled Feb. 4, 2013. A...
| | Public Companies Must Begin Reporting Transactions with Iran
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 14, 2013, previously published on February 2013 Beginning February 6, 2013, public companies must disclose in annual or quarterly reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission whether the companies or any of their affiliates engaged in proscribed transactions with Iran. Any company disclosing this type of activity also must file a notice...
| | FTC Sets Guidelines for Mobile Privacy Disclosures
Kenneth R. Florin, Ieuan Jolly, Brian Nixon, James D. Taylor; Loeb & Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 14, 2013, previously published on February 2013 The FTC issued a new report, Mobile Privacy Disclosures: Building Trust Through Transparency, on February 1, 2013, detailing the Commission's recommendations for best practices for key players in the mobile "ecosystem": mobile platforms, app developers, advertising networks, and other...
| | FTC's Year-End Report to Congress on Debit Card Transaction Rules Outlines Agency's Enforcement and Education Initiatives
Michael L. Mallow, Michael A. Thurman; Loeb & Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 1, 2013, previously published on January 2013 As 2012 came to a close, the Federal Trade Commission updated Congress on its enforcement and other efforts in connection with the new rules regulating debit card transactions implemented last year by the Federal Reserve Board under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of...
| | Estate Denied Deduction for Settlement Payment to Caregiver
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 1, 2013, previously published on January 2013 In Estate of Sylvia E. Bates (2012), the Tax Court rejected an estate’s attempt to deduct a settlement payment to the decedent’s caregiver as an estate administration expense on the estate tax return. In a trust prepared by the decedent, she left $100,000 to the person who had been her...
| | California Court of Appeal Holds Unconstitutional California Exclusion of Gain from Sales of “Qualified Small Business Stock”
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 1, 2013, previously published on January 2013 California’s Revenue and Taxation Code Section 18152.5 includes a provision that is similar to IRC Section 1202, which allows a taxpayer to exclude a portion of the gain he recognizes upon the sale of “qualified small business stock.” Qualified small business stock is generally...
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