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  • A Primer on Selling Your Business--12 Tips for Maximizing Value
    Learn how to step through the valuation minefield and maximize your company's worth before putting it up for sale.
  • Protecting Your Domain Name: Understanding the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
    Trademark and service mark owners need to monitor the third-party registration of domain names to make certain that others are not misusing their intellectual property.
  • Marketing Through Blogs Presents New Legal Risks
    As blogs have become more potent marketing and promotional forces, various legal issues have arisen that warrant close consideration.
  • Hedge Funds Under Increasing Scrutiny in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
    The hedge fund industry in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will come under greater regulatory scrutiny in light of a recent case brought by the Secretary of the Commonwealth related to the failure of a hedge fund to adequately restrict online access to information about the Respondents' hedge fund products.
  • Justice and SEC Clamping Down on Corrupt Practices: Beware of the Conduct of Strategic Partners
    Private equity firms should be aware of actions the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have taken recently under the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
  • SEC Proposes Anti-Fraud Rules to More Closely Regulate Hedge Funds & Certain Venture Capital Funds
    Recently, the SEC proposed changes that would revise criteria for admission for individuals that invest in some private funds (excluding some venture capital funds).
  • Clamping Down on the Use of Trademarks as Key Words
    Internet users search for information online through search engines. Because some web page owners have paid for links to be included in search engine results they frown upon competing websites using their trademarked terms as keywords for links whenever the trademark owners results appear as a search result.
  • Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Narrows Application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
    Businesses hoping to take advantage of provisions of the Sovereign Immunities Act need to appreciate a recent ruling of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals deemed to limit the extent and application of that Act.
  • Software Companies Face Threat of Patent Infringement Suits for Overseas Sales: But Is It Serious
    A significant case has reached the U.S. Supreme Court that on the surface could expose high-tech companies to greater liability for patent infringement in regard to certain products assembled and sold overseas.
  • The End is Near: Limited Liability Entities in New York State Must Act Today to Avoid Suspension
    If you are a owner, member or operator of a non-corporate limited liability entity that either was organized pursuant to the statutes or the state of New York or that is duly qualified to do business in New York, you have only until May 31, 2007, to make certain that you fully are in compliance with certain newspaper publication and filing requirements that went into effect in New York.
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