Firm Insights

Trademarks, Pelotons, and Heart Attacks: The Sex in the City Trifecta

By Michael A. Kahn / December 22, 2021 / Comments Off on Trademarks, Pelotons, and Heart Attacks: The Sex in the City Trifecta

We who toil in the field of intellectual property have our own NSFW collection of cases that we file in the folder labeled Stuff You Can’t Make Up. For example, did you know that the esteemed Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals had to grapple with whether the Fartman doll infringed the copyright in Pull My…

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Who You Calling a Broker? The Infrastructure Bill’s Impact on Cryptocurrency

By Sanford J. Boxerman / August 11, 2021 / Comments Off on Who You Calling a Broker? The Infrastructure Bill’s Impact on Cryptocurrency

In 2016, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (“TIGTA”) recommended that the IRS “revise third-party information reporting documents to identify the amounts of virtual currency used in taxable transactions,” as a partial solution to TIGTA’s concern that too much virtual currency activity goes unreported to the IRS. The bipartisan infrastructure bill that just passed…

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Better Late Than Never: The Wayfair Impact & Missouri’s New Sales Tax Legislation

By Michelle F. Schwerin / August 6, 2021 / Comments Off on Better Late Than Never: The Wayfair Impact & Missouri’s New Sales Tax Legislation

Over the past decade, online retail has exploded – for many sellers, it is now almost non-optional to offer products via online sales.  Until recently, however, a state could not impose sales tax obligations on retailers who lacked a physical presence within that state’s borders.  Thus, online retailers with a national customer base avoided collecting…

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