In a landmark decision, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Signature Financial v. State Street Bank held that business methods may be patented. Recently, the US Supreme Court in Bilski v. Kappos left the door open for the availability of patents for business methods. These holdings, together with the explosive growth of electronic commerce and technology, make the business method patent an important growth area of intellectual property.

Now in a revised Looseleaf format, this completely updated second edition is your guide to the unique opportunities and risks in this emerging area of intellectual property law.

Business Method Patents, Second Edition is your authoritative source for expert guidance on:

• The landmark Supreme Court decision in Bilski v. Kappos
• USPTO view on business method patents, including an overview of BPAI rulings
• Mechanics of the patent application
• Prior art searches
• Drafting claims for business method or model and e-commerce inventions
• Drafting the complete specification
• Drawings required for business method patents
• Building a strategic patent portfolio
• Litigating business method patents
• International protection for business methods

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Formerly Business Quick Answers

Your business income tax "how to" reference. Thoughtfully and logically organized, this book covers C corporations, S corporations, partnerships, LLCs and tax-exempt organizations. It will be the first resource you reach for when you need quick answers to your compliance questions.

• Detailed information on how to report income, deductions and other tax items
• Coverage of the basic requirements for payroll tax compliance - filing requirements, forms to use, deposit requirements and more
• Concise and accurate explanations of key business tax law points, with special chapters on:
• Depreciation and amortization
• Employee benefit plans
• Tax credits and business deductions
• Tax accounting
• Partnerships and corporate acquisitions, dispositions and liquidations

• IRS corporate tax rate schedules
• Entity filing information
• Principal activity codes
• Depreciation tables
• Lease inclusion tables
• Asset class lives
• Special coverage of tax law changes that occurred in the past year
• Worksheets designed to help you calculate specific tax items and then organize the information for input on a return

410 pages

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Published: April 2006

To supply the background law students need to succeed in business-related courses - such as accounting, economics, real estate, tax, business organizations, and finance - try the text known for its effectiveness, edition after edition. Business Basics for Law Students, Fourth Edition explains the mechanics, concepts, and legal context of business topics in exceptionally clear and accessible language.

The book demystifies business principles through:

• The combined skills of distinguished authors who draw on their teaching and writing experience to build student confidence
• Straightforward explanations of daunting topics (accounting, financial statements, taxes, mortgages, etc.) tailored to students without a business background
• Generous use of examples to convey ideas and applications
• A helpful list of new terms in the appendix, conveniently keyed to the pages where they are used and explained
• Frequent use of visual aids, such as tax forms, financial quotes as they appear in the newspaper, tables, and graphs
• An accessible design featuring lists of topics keyed to headings at the beginning of each chapter, key terms and concepts bolded for easy identification, and frequent use of lists to clearly enumerate points and examples

Thoroughly updated to respond to recent developments, the fourth edition features:

• New material on recent scandals and reforms in the chapters on accounting, forms of organization, trading, and mutual funds
• The latest information on executive compensation
• Extensive revisions to the chapters on tax and retirement planning, in light of recent and proposed reforms, especially in connection with Social Security
• An expanded chapter on insurance that now includes health insurance, auto insurance, and more
• New material on spinoffs and other divisive reorganization in the chapter on mergers, as well as discussion of taxable and tax-free transactions
• New coverage of securities regulation, antitrust, intellectual property law, and international business transactions integrated throughout the text

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Whether you represent brokerage firms and their employees or shareholders and investors, your clients depend on your informed counsel to help them thrive in today’s securities markets. With Broker-Dealer Law and Regulation, the authoritative analysis and practical guidance you need to advise clients on their rights, duties and liabilities under today’s complex securities regulations is at your fingertips. Written by two of America’s leading securities authorities, this publication gives you reliable guidance on the latest federal and state law governing private litigation and arbitration between broker-dealers and their customers, as well as regulation by the SEC and the SROs.

The Fourth Edition has been completely revised to cover all of the important regulatory changes and developments in case law affecting broker-dealers and includes new chapters covering the structure of the securities markets, the regulation of broker-dealers in public offerings and SEC and SRO enforcement, as well as expanded analysis of the technological advances in securities trading and information dissemination.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Economics and Structure of the Securities Industry
  • Chapter 2: Broker-Dealers Within Financial Conglomerates
  • Chapter 3: The Securities Markets
  • Chapter 4: An Overview of the Regulatory System
• Regulation and Compliance
  
  • Chapter 5: Broker Registration and Exemptions
  • Chapter 6: Broker and Associated Person Registration Process
  • Chapter 7: Broker Recordkeeping and Reporting
  • Chapter 8: Privacy and Anti-Money Laundering
  • Chapter 9: The Duty to Supervise
  • Chapter 10: Compensation in the Securities Industry
  • Chapter 11: Electronic Trading and the Securities Industry
  • Chapter 12: Financial Regulation of Broker-Dealers
  • Chapter 13: Broker-Dealers in Public Offerings
  • Chapter 14: SEC and SRO Enforcement and Disciplinary Proceedings
  • Chapter 15: Penny Stock Regulation
• Private Rights of Actions
  
  • Chapter 16: Liability of Broker-Dealers Under Common Law
  • Chapter 17: Fraud Generally
  • Chapter 18: Churning
  • Chapter 19: The Suitability Doctrine
  • Chapter 20: Unauthorized Trading
  • Chapter 21: Market Manipulation
  • Chapter 22: Conflicts of Interest and the Securities Industry
  • Chapter 23: Damages in Actions Against Broker-Dealers
  • Chapter 24: Defenses in Actions Against Broker-Dealers
  • Chapter 25: Vicarious Liability

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The British Columbia Corporations Law Guide provides you and your firm with comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of British Columbia company law and includes all relevant Acts and Regulations, decisions, rulings, and releases affecting the formation of companies and societies and their legal operation under British Columbia law.

To further assist you in maintaining compliance, the Guide includes relevant commentary, a Table of Concordance and numerous precedents pertaining to each topical area within the Guide, all of which have been updated to incorporate recent legislative changes. The Guide also includes the full text of recent court decisions.

Topics covered include:

• Incorporation and Organization
• Company Alterations
• Directors and Officers
• Corporate Finance
• Shareholders' Meetings and Agreements
• Records and Returns
• Audits and Financial Statements
• Liquidation, Dissolution and Restoration
• Shareholders' Remedies
• Extra-Provincial Corporations
• Societies

Included with your subscription is Corporate Brief, a monthly newsletter containing feature articles, digests of recent cases, and updates to legislation.

Subscribe to the online version and access Corporate Law News Tracker. With the News Tracker, you get notices of all updates via e-mail. Your updates give you instant access to changes in corporate law that originate from a variety of primary and secondary sources such as press releases, legislation, and cases.

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The new five volume Blumberg on Corporate Groups, 2nd Edition provides a complete treatment of corporate groups and the legal interrelationships of their component parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies. It offers in-depth coverage of statutory and judicial law, federal and state, that affects parent and subsidiaries, franchisors and franchisees, licensors and licensees, health care institutions and medical staff as well as other corporate groups.

Traditional corporation law and "piercing the veil" no longer provide adequate guides to the law of parent and subsidiary corporations. In numerous areas, courts and legislatures are today allocating legal rights and liabilities according to modern enterprise principles. Blumberg's ground-breaking analysis of the law of corporate groups, with thousands of cases and detailed review of major regulatory areas provides the bench, the bar and the academy with a comprehensive review of the new legal principles at work.

Table of Contents:

• Volume 1: Introduction to Corporate Groups
  • Part II: Common Law Veil Piercing Theory
  • Part III: Jurisdiction, Practice & Procedure
• Volume 2
  • Part IV: Substantive Common Law (Contracts, Torts, Property, Conflicts of Law)
  • Part V: Bankcruptcy
• Volume 3
  • Part VI: General Statutory Law
  • Part VII: Enterprise Statutes
• Volume 4
  • Part VIII: World Trade and Enterprise Regulation
• Volume 5
  • Part IX: Franchising and Other Relational Law (Successors, Licensors, Subcontractors)
• Table of Cases
• Table of Statutes
• Index

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 Authors: Lois Ruffner Plank, Donald Morris, Bryan R. Plank and Christie Plank Ciraulo

Provides a detailed explanation of the tax-related provisions contained in over 40 pieces of legislation enacted in the 112th Congress during 2011 and 2012.

The Blue Book provides the legislative history for each Act, a provision-by-provision description of the prior law and new law, the reasons for the law change if the provision was reported out of committee before enactment, and the effective date of each law change. Descriptions prepared by the Joint Committee on Taxation were included in the absence of other committee reports or when the Joint Committee issued a contemporaneous technical explanation of the bill. An Appendix shows the estimated budget effects of the tax legislation enacted in the 112th Congress for fiscal years 2010 – 2012.

The Blue Book's explanations serve as a useful guide in understanding the intent and meaning of the new tax laws and, along with committee and conference reports, is considered substantial authority for the tax treatment of an item for purposes of avoiding the Code Sec. 6662 accuracy-related penalty on substantial understatements of income tax (Reg. §1.6662-4(d)(3)(iii)).

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Published: December 2014

Perfect for Corporate and Commercial Lawyers, Trustees, Accountants, Debtors, Lenders, Directors, Corporate Secretaries, or In-House Corporate Counsel, Bennett on Bankruptcy, 17th Edition explains leading cases from a practitioner’s point of view.

What's new:

• Over 100 new cases
• Commentary continues to be revised and expanded
• Two new Ontario Template Receivership Orders as well as new practice directions
• A new Ontario Template CCAA Order
• Four new or revised Directives, including the Procedure Governing Trustee Professional Conduct Proceedings and the updated Surplus Income requirements
• Seventeen new Notices
• One Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act form has been revised
• Reference to the Discussion Paper on the 2014 Statutory Review of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act

About the Author
Frank Bennett, L.S.M., LL.M., is the past Chair of both the provincial and national Bankruptcy and Insolvency sections of the CBA, a council member and currently chair of the Foreign Conference Committee of the Ontario Bar Association, a former member of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Advisory Committee to Industry Canada, a frequent lecturer, and author of several books and articles.

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Published: December 2008

Bennett on Bankruptcy Precedents, 2nd Edition is a collection of forms and precedents adapted from the prescribed forms under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. These are designed to guide the bankruptcy practitioner through the complete bankruptcy process, from the initial retainer and court filings through to discharge and appeals.

What's included:

• Precedents
• Companies' Creditors Arrangements Act
• Commentary
• A DVD containing the forms and precedents in electronic format

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A lawyer’s duty to avoid conflicts of interest is an important aspect of the duty of loyalty that lawyers owe to their clients. For Canadian in-house counsel, the duty to avoid conflicts of interest presents special challenges due to the nature of the relationship of in-house counsel to their employer. This webinar will enable in-house counsel to effectively navigate the conflict rules in the Canadian legal system, and provide participants with the knowledge to successfully implement best practices to avoid conflicts of interest.

This webinar will provide participants with an introduction to key cases including the recent Supreme Court of Canada case of Canadian Railway Co. v McKercher LLP, 2013 SCC 39, and provincial law society rules on conflicts of interest. It will also address when representation might attract a bright line rule, and when a contextual test will be applied; the circumstances in which a lawyer might be disqualified from representation of a client; and why a waiver might be insufficient. It will provide an opportunity to learn about the unique duties of in-house counsel in relation to conflicts of interest. Finally, it will provide discussion on some best practices for creating effective policies and procedures to avoid the creation of circumstances in which a conflict of interest would arise.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the provincial Law Society rules on conflicts of interest in Canada;
• Learn the key Canadian cases on conflict of interests, the rules that have emerged from the jurisprudence, and the policy concerns of the Canadian courts in relation to a lawyer’s duty to avoid conflicts;
• Understand and reflect on your professional duties to your employer, and to your professional regulator, in circumstances in which a conflict of interest may arise; and
• Learn about best practices and policies to avoid conflicts of interest.

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This 3-hour recorded Webinar is entitled "Preparing and Conducting a Consultation with CCH Profit Driver." It is a high energy, informative session led by Mark Holton: an internationally renowned taxation and business management consultant and an expert in CCH Profit Driver implementation. Step by step you will learn how to become a trusted advisor to your clients, earning additional revenue by providing them with the consultation services they not only want, but need in today's economy.

Here are just some of the topics that will be covered at this important event:

• How to determine which clients are potential prospects for your consultation service
• How to efficiently prepare a consultation using CCH Profit Driver
• How to explain financial formulas using terms that are easy to understand
• How to conduct the ideal consultation
• What your next steps should be after the consultation has been completed
• What your pricing strategy should be for these value-added services
• And more!

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By popular demand, we are now offering an archived version of the webinar GST/HST & Real Property Transactions that took place on November 20, 2014.
 
Although many GST and HST concepts are well understood by taxpayers, many of the real property rules are less well known. The rules associated with real property are complicated, having led even tax practitioners astray, and the dollar values of these transactions are usually high. Accordingly, audit activity in the sector is also high and GST/HST errors have led to costly CRA reassessments.

This archived webinar will provide a practical understanding of the complex rules for real property transactions and the current issues faced by the industry in applying the GST/HST in the development, construction and sale of real property.

Topics specifically covered include:

• Current state of affairs
• Bare trustees
• Joint ventures
• Partnerships
• Sales of vacant land
• Self-assessments
• New housing rebates
• Rental property rebates
• Documentary requirements for input tax credits

By purchasing this archive webinar, you will receive:

• 30 days to review the webinar recording 

• PDF version of the presentation slides

Our Speaker: 

Wayne Mandel, PwC LLP

Wayne Mandel is an Indirect Tax Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He specializes in the Goods and Services Tax and the Harmonized Sales Tax and has concentrated his area of practice primarily in the real estate sector. Wayne has provided advice and interpretation on a wide range of issues and has also provided assistance to clients in preparing for government audits, support during the audit process and resolving assessment issues. Wayne has experience in the appeals process and making submissions under the government's taxpayer relief provisions. He has delivered numerous presentations to clients on changes and new developments in these taxes.

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Launched in 1985, Arbitration International provides quarterly coverage for national and international developments in the world of arbitration. It aims to maintain balance between academic debate and practical contributions to the field, providing both topical material on current developments and analytic scholarship of permanent interest. Arbitrators, counsel, judges, scholars and government officials will find the journal enhances their understanding of a broad range of topics in private dispute resolution.

Features include:

• Articles covering all major arbitration rules and national jurisdictions written by respected international practitioners and scholars
• Cutting edge notes covering recent developments and ongoing debates in the field
• Book reviews of the latest publications in the world of arbitration
• Over 100 pages of authoritative information per issue, maintaining an appropriate balance between controversial subjects for debate and topics geared toward practical use

The journal meets the needs of lawyers and others engaged in the development and application of international arbitration as a means of international commercial dispute resolution.

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Published: October 2011

Advocacy in international arbitration is the focus of this collection of articles emanating from the twentieth Congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) held in Rio de Janeiro in 2010.

The topics addressed by renowned arbitration practitioners and scholars in Arbitration Advocacy in Changing Times include:

• Effective advocacy in arbitration
• The advocate's role at different stages of arbitration proceedings
• The role of experts
• Arbitration advocacy and Constitutional law
• Advocacy and ethics in international arbitration

The volume also contains a new approach to expert evidence – the Protocol on Expert Teaming – and closes with a proposal for an International Code of Ethics for Lawyers Practicing Before International Arbitral Tribunals.

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Published: March 2009

It often seems today that no dispute is barred from resolution by arbitration. Even the fundamental question of whether a dispute falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of a judicial body may itself be arbitrable. Arbitrability is thus an elusive concept; yet a systematic study of it, as this book shows, yields innumerable guidelines and insights that are of substantial value to arbitral practice.

Although Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives takes the form of a collection of essays, it is designed as a comprehensive commentary on practical issues that emerge from the idea of arbitrability. Fifteen leading academics and practitioners from Europe and the United States each explore different facets of arbitrability always with a perspective open to international developments and comparative evaluation of standards.

The presentation falls into two parts: in the first the focus is on the general features of arbitrability, its rationale and the laws applicable to it. In the second, arbitrability is specifically examined in the context of administrative, criminal, corporate, IP, financial, commercial, and criminal law.

This book has its origins in an International Conference on Arbitrability held at Athens in September 2005. Seven papers presented there are here reviewed and updated, and nine others are added.

The subject of the book – arbitrability – is one that is much talked about, but seldom if ever given the in-depth treatment presented here. Arbitrators and other practitioners in the field will welcome the way the analysis moves logically from theory to practice regarding every issue, and academics will recognize a definitive treatment of arbitrability as understood and applied in the settlement of disputes today.

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The authority of Antitrust Law is second to none. It has been cited more than 50 times by both the Supreme Court and FTC and more than 1,000 times by the federal courts. Most recently it was cited by the Supreme Court in Pacific Bell v LinkLine Communications.

No other source gives you all the law to avoid antitrust liability as you plan marketing strategies, develop pricing policies, structure mergers and prove - or defend against - antitrust injury, monopolization, conspiracy and other allegations. It includes real-world examples and in-depth examination of thousands of cases.

In 2008, the USDOJ Antitrust Division presented Hovenkamp with the prestigious John Sherman Award. This annual award is given for outstanding contributions to the field of antitrust law, the protection of American consumers and the preservation of economic liberty.

The latest release includes Volumes 3, 3A and 3B of the Third Edition, which have been revised and greatly expanded.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Objectives of the Antitrust Laws
• Chapter 2: Domain of the Antitrust Laws: Jurisdiction, Immunities, and Exclusion from Coverage
• Chapter 3: The System of Remedies: Basic Issues
• Chapter 4: The Economic Basis for Antitrust Policy
• Chapter 5: Market Power and Market Definition
• Chapter 6: Monopolization
• Chapter 7: Monopolization: Particular Exclusionary Practices
• Chapter 8: Power and the Power-Conduct Relationship in Monopolization and Attempt
• Chapter 9: Mergers: Generally and Horizontal
• Chapter 10: Vertical Mergers
• Chapter 11: Conglomerate Mergers
• Chapter 12: Partial Acquisitions and Post-Acquisition Evidence
• Chapter 13: Interlocking Directors
• Chapter 14: Conspiracy, Horizontal and Vertical
• Chapter 15: "Rule of Reason" and "Per Se Rule" - General Issues
• Chapter 16: Vertical Distribution Restraints Limiting Intrabrand Competition
• Chapter 17: Tying Arrangements
• Chapter 18: Exclusive Dealing and Related Practices
• Chapter 19: Horizontal Agreements: An Introduction
• Chapter 20: Horizontal Agreements Limiting Participants' Output
• Chapter 21: Horizontal Agreements Facilitating Development, Production, or Distribution
• Chapter 22: Horizontal Agreements Excluding Rivals
• Chapter 23: The Robinson-Patman Act
• Chapter 24: State Antitrust Law: A Brief Introduction
• Complete Table of Contents
• Chapter Table of Cases
• Index

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The Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Manual has been carefully compiled to give you everything you need to speed up the resolution of disputes in the following practice areas:

• Commercial Law
• Insurance Law
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• School Mediation
• Employment and Labour Law
• Landlord and Tenant Law

Key topics include:

• Dispute Resolution Spectrum
• Arbitration
• Mediation
• Mini-trials
• Negotiation
• Liability of ADR Neutrals
• Court-annexed ADR
• Preparing for and Attending Mediation
• ADR in the Workplace

The manual also provides checklists, legislation, rules of various arbitration and mediation organizations, selected international material, a directory of dispute resolution centers and services, as well as sample agreements, clauses and practical “how to” advice. Included with your subscription is the quarterly newsletter, ADR Forum.

Number of Volumes: 2

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Philip Wilson

The comprehensive resource puts 50 comparative performance indicators at the practitioner's command and covers all of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) using NAICS data. The Almanac provides financial information that is calculated and derived from the latest available IRS data on nearly 5 million U.S. and international companies. The Almanac gives you accurate performance data for 50 operating and financial factors in 199 industries.

Data for each industry is divided into 13 categories based on company size, so you'll find a precise benchmark against which to measure any company's performance. One quick glance at the appropriate field of business and company-size category and you've found the definitive starting point for competitive performance analysis. The Almanac provides competitive norms in actual dollar amounts for revenue and capital factors, such as net receivables, net property, inventories, total assets, portfolio income, and more. It then gives you important average operating costs in percent of net sales, including cost of operations, pensions and benefits, interest, and more.

The Almanac provides ratios for industry-wide results for inventory turnover, current assets to working capital, quick ratio, asset turnover, and others. It also provides other critical financial factors in percentages, including debt ratio, return on assets, and return on equity, and profit margin.

It comes complete with a CD that contains a special Excel Spreadsheet Template that can be used to input data on a given company to see how a company compares with the data provided in the Almanac.

The book is organized by the following major industry sectors, which in turn cover 199 industries, including:

• Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting
• Mining
• Utilities
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Wholesale trade
• Retail trade
• Transportation and warehousing
• Information
• Finance and insurance
• Real estate and rental leasing
• Professional, scientific and technical services
• Management of companies (holding companies)
• Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
• Health care and social assistance
• Arts, entertainment and recreation
• Accommodation and food services
• Other services (including repair and maintenance, automotive repair and maintenance, personal and laundry services, and religious, grant-making, civic, and professional organizations)

8 ½" x 11"   824 pages