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Intellectual Property

The Importance of Facebook’s “Username” Registration

June 12, 2009
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Beginning this Saturday, June 13, 2009, at 12:01 a.m. U.S. EST, the popular social networking site Facebook will allow its current users who have more than 1,000 “fans” prior to May 31, 2009 to register and develop personalized usernames and web site address (or “URLs”) for their Facebook web pages. New Facebook users (or those with fewer than 1,000 “fans”) will have an opportunity to register a personalized username beginning June 28, 2009 [...]

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Hotels Should Consider the Legal Issues of Online Social Media

June 1, 2009

First came blogs. Then MySpace and Facebook. And now Twitter. Although online social media (or “social networking”) was once the domain of students and tech-savvy individuals, it is increasingly used by companies of all sizes for business purposes. For instance, it is now commonplace for hotels to sponsor Twitter accounts to advertise rate discounts and special events. More recently, wineries have joined the fray, with many sponsoring blogs and creating Facebook pages. These [...]

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Section 1031 Like-Kind Exchanges of Trademarks

May 5, 2009

The IRS recently released a Technical Advice Memorandum (”TAM”) providing further guidance to determining whether intangibles constitute goodwill or going concern value in relation to Section 1031 Like-Kind Exchanges [...]

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