Our Blog is Still Under Construction
We are working on bringing you new content and organizing this blog into what we hope will be a useful source of information. Please bear with us. Thank you!
Please note that it is our hope that this blog will become the successor to our quarterly newsletter, the L&B Quarterly Perspective, which was published in the early days of our law firm. The early content on this blog is from the L&B Quarterly Perspective. Coming from a print newsletter format, the contents of the Perspective were written and typeset for that medium and may not translate easily to a blog format, but we hope the content will be useful nonetheless.
In all of our issues of the L&B Quarterly Perspective we endeavor to keep you up to date on changes in various areas of the law applicable to many businesses, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, business, tax and estate planning. Therefore, we have compiled this special double issue of our newsletter to provide dual coverage of both a new trademark Act and a pending patent Bill — the Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act and the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.
On October 30, 1999, the Trademark Law Treaty Implementation Act (TLTIA) went into effect. This new law will make a number of procedural and substantive changes to U.S. trademark law. In view of the TLTIA, we have devoted a substantial portion of this newsletter to some of the changes that may affect you. We hope these articles will help inform you of some of the changes and prepare you for there implementation, as it may affect your trademarks and intellectual property assets. Additionally, we have provided information on the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA). This Act is now making its way through Congress and may soon be on the President’s desk for signature. As of this newsletter, we understand that the President is likely to sign the AIPA into law, barring any “unforeseen” amendments or riders attached to the legislation. We hope that this article will help keep you informed of a few changes to patent law which may be around the corner. If you should have any specific questions on the TLTIA or AIPA and how these may affect any of your intellectual property, please feel free to contact us.
Furthermore, we have provided a myriad of notes and articles on recent actions by the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration and our second installment of Tax Tidbits. This information may not be new to all of our readers, however, we feel it is significant enough to provide as a “heads-up” and reminder. We hope it will be useful to you and your business.
Articles
- Trademarks: How the New Trademark Law Treaty Act of 1998 Will Effect Federal Trademark Registrations
- Trademarks: Key Provisions of the Trademark Law Treaty
- Trademarks: Recent Trademark Cases
- Patents: A Brief Look at the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999
- SBA-IRS Partnership Formed To Aid Small Businesses
- Social Security Administration Provides Sample Text of Statement Regarding Soon to Begin Mailings of SSA Statements
- Take Note: Social Security Administration Reconciles Employees W-2s and Forms 941
- Tax Tidbits
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