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Maryland Legal Alert for Financial Services |February 06, 2019

Credit Card Surcharges and Merchant Fees

The credit card market is essentially a two-sided transaction platform where the...

IP Tech Knowledgy |January 31, 2019

Secret Sales of Inventions May Invalidate a Later Patent Filing

A secret sale of a device may start the clock running for when patents must be f...

Legal Bulletins |January 31, 2019

Landlords Should Get Active and Seek the 199A Safe Harbor

The 20% deduction for pass-through income provided by Internal Revenue Code Sect...

Legal Bulletins |January 23, 2019

New Rules for Entities Taxed as Partnerships and New Partnership Tax Return (Form 1065)

Important statutory changes are now in effect concerning entities taxed as partn...

IP Tech Knowledgy |January 17, 2019

Patent Eligibility: Find the “Practical Application”

It should become easier to obtain patents for computer-implemented inventions, n...

Maryland Legal Alert for Financial Services |January 11, 2019

2018 Survey of Activities Identified as Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Under the Dodd-Frank Act, Part Two

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Maryland Legal Alert for Financial Services |January 10, 2019

A Survey of Maryland Laws Relating to Extending Credit and Consumer Financial Services, Sixth Edition

The laws that apply to credit extensions in Maryland can be confusing. This surv...

Maryland Legal Alert for Financial Services |January 09, 2019

Maryland Legal Alert - January 2019

In This Issue:MARYLAND MINIMUM INTEREST RATE INCREASES FOR ESCROW AND SPECIAL PU...

IP Tech Knowledgy |January 03, 2019

Using Your Sports Team’s Branding for Your Own Purposes

Your football team has made the playoffs this year after a drought (Go Ravens!)....

Relating to Real Estate |January 03, 2019

New Baltimore City Affordable Housing Tax May Yield Much Less Than Anticipated

On December 12, 2018, Mayor Catherine Pugh signed into law Baltimore City Counci...