Posts tagged “TechLaw”
Now's the time to gift: Strategies to make the most of the current financial situation
TechLaw: In today's economic climate, it is easy for business owners and other high-worth individuals to feel pessimistic about financial matters. However, in the world of gift and estate taxation, unusually low interest rates provide several planning opportunities that capitalize on depressed real property and stock values. Furthermore, new gift tax legislation allows these planning opportunities to be used with little or no out-of-pocket gift tax expense. Families should get serious about planning today in order to pass assets to a younger generation with as little tax cost as possible.
The erosion of ‘OBX’ and the importance of distinctive trademarks
TechLaw: If you have ever traveled the roads of North Carolina, or perhaps any state on the eastern seaboard, you likely have seen vehicles bearing a white, oval-shaped sticker with "OBX" printed on it. That trademark was extraordinarily valuable for its owner for over a decade. However, a recent ruling from a federal appeals court has drastically eroded its value. The case underscores for business owners the importance of "distinctiveness" in formulating and marketing trademarks.
Employment-at-will rule: A doctrine under siege
TechLaw: The employment-at-will rule has served management well for 132 years. However, it has taken some hits. How much vitality remains in the at will rule?
Good faith, due care, loyalties – Responsibilities of nonprofit directors
TechLaw: It is common in today's business world for individuals to serve as directors on one or more nonprofit corporation boards such as their church, homeowners association, or a public charity. Rarely, however, do people understand the responsibilities they accept when becoming a nonprofit director.
‘The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind’ – What is future of wind energy projects in N.C.?
TechLaw: North Carolina has some of the best wind resources in the nation. Are we ready and willing to use them to generate green, low-cost electricity?
Do you have a good title? The financial crisis and the rise of surprise title issues
TechLaw: The downturn in the economy has led to a number of financial problems with lenders, property owners, developers, builders, general contractors, and subcontractors of newly constructed, or recently improved, homes and commercial buildings. These financial problems can get passed to the purchasers in the form of unknown, and unexpected, title problems.
Breaking up is hard to do – Valuation of stock options in divorce
TechLaw: In North Carolina, like many other states, when spouses physically separate and ultimately divorce, each is entitled to an equitable distribution of the couple's marital and divisible property.
Should you fight the good fight: How to evaluate unemployment claims and choose the ones to contest
TechLaw: The troubled economy has made unemployment by many members of the work force a reality. When determining whether or not to contest a claim for unemployment benefits, the employer's knowledge of the process is critical.
Privacy as we know it just died – and the Internet killed it
TechLaw:In this technologically advanced age, nearly anyone can disseminate information around the world with just the click of a mouse. You no longer have to be famous to draw attention from millions of viewers. Through the Internet, anyone can reach a mass audience. But how does this, or should this, change or affect the current state of privacy laws?
From bad to worse: The expanded fiduciary duties imposed on directors of insolvent, near insolvent corporations
TechLaw: A member of a corporation's board of directors always owes certain fiduciary duties to that corporation. However, a corporate director's fiduciary duties expand to include creditors when the corporation becomes insolvent or is nearing insolvency.
Taxation of patent sales: Even innovation answers to Uncle Sam
TechLaw: Your sale of a patent, like the sale of any property, may result in either ordinary income or capital gain tax treatment. Understanding the rules applicable to the taxation of patent sales will ensure that any income you receive from the sale of your patent will be taxed at the long-term capital gain rate instead of the higher, ordinary income rate.
International estate planning: Issues arising when your estate crosses national borders
TechLaw: The term "international estate planning" may conjure up images of offshore trusts in the Cayman Islands or numbered bank accounts in Switzerland, but multinational tax and fiduciary law issues affect not only ultra-wealthy international jet setters but also anyone who is a resident non-citizen, who is married to a non-citizen, or who has property located in more than one country.
Miss deferred compensation compliance deadline? You still may be able to fix documents, avoid triple tax if you act quickly
TechLaw: As of January 1, 2009, documents containing deferred compensation must include "magic language" to avoid the adverse tax consequences of Internal Revenue Code Section 409A. Although the IRS has not provided any relief to taxpayers who missed the deadline, you still may have a limited opportunity to comply.
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