Category Archives: PLI Press

Sack on Defamation Tackles Fake News

In his acclaimed Treatise, Sack on Defamation, author Judge Robert D. Sack shows that “fake news” lies outside the defamation protections granted to the institutional media.

In the days after President Trump announced his “Fake News Awards”, Sack’s is an important point to keep in mind, as columnist Alfred Hunt writes in Bloomberg View, because it means it’s unnecessary to change libel law to make it harder to deliberately disseminate false information–it is already actionable under our current law. In addition, Sack reminds us of the significance of protecting the high standards that public figures must meet in order to prove defamation against a media outlet.

Sack on Defamation is available on PLI PLUS, our online research database. If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877.900.5291.

PLI PLUS Most Popular Titles of 2017

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Interested in seeing what content our subscribers find the most valuable? Listed below are 2017’s most popular titles on PLI PLUS.

  1. The Corporate Tax Practice Series
  2. The Partnership Tax Practice Series
  3. Mergers, Acquisitions & Tender Offers: Law and Strategies – Corporate, Securities, Taxation, Antitrust, Cross Border
  4. Investment Adviser Regulation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Compliance and the Law (3rd Edition)
  5. Broker-Dealer Regulation (2nd Edition)
  6. Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation (2nd Edition)
  7. Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings 2015
  8. Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds Regulation (3rd Edition)
  9. Initial Public Offerings: A Practical Guide to Going Public (2nd Edition)
  10. Public Company Deskbook: Complying with Federal Governance & Disclosure Requirements (3rd Edition)

If you have any questions about PLI PLUS, please email or call 877.900.5291.

New Title! Master the 8-K

Master the 8-KMaster the 8-K is the first publication from PLI’s new SEC Compliance and Disclosure series. It is a clear, concise, and comprehensive guide to filing the SEC’s Current Report on Form 8-K that every securities lawyer will want to have close at hand.

This handbook begins with an overview of the Form 8-K requirements and principles generally applicable to all Form 8-K Items, such as:

In this easy-to-use handbook, each Form 8-K Item is broken down and begins with “highlights” that, at a glance, alert you to critical matters about that Item, such as whether the “safe harbor” applies, whether there are exhibit requirements, whether there are possible update requirements, and whether there are critical definitions to consider. Then, you will find step-by-step instructions and expert practice tips on:

  • Triggering events and disclosure requirements for every Form 8-K Item
  • The requirements for effective disclosure controls
  • Filing procedures and deadlines
  • Possible 8-K “traps”, such as update requirements, and how to avoid them

Master the 8-K also includes sample disclosure language, and detailed appendices containing the Form 8-K itself, key regulations, and SEC Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs)—it is intended to be a stand-alone resource for those attempting to master the Form 8-K.

This essential title is available on PLI PLUS, our online research database.  If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call (877-900-5291).

 

New Update! The Partnership Tax Practice Series

PLI recently updated our Partnership Tax Practice Series. The 2017 version is now available on PLI PLUS.

The Partnership Tax Practice Series includes more than 425 articles written by over 290 prominent partnership tax practitioners and delivers a sound analysis of cutting-edge transactional tax-related issues and innovative solutions for highly effective tax planning results. To provide a historical framework for today’s partnership tax practice, the series includes retrospectives on significant developments in partnership and real estate taxation, interesting partnership transactions of the past decade, and analysis of major decisions, including Hubert, Canal Corporation, G-I Holdings and Castle Harbour.

The 2017 version contains 24 new articles that tackle issues including:
• The Up-C revolution
• The proposed regulations under Sections 707 and 752
• Sham partnerships and equivocal transactions
• Hedge fund tax considerations

The update Treatise is available on PLI PLUS, our research database.  If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.

PLI’s New Guide to Financial Services Mediation!

Did you know that Mediation Can Be a Powerful Tool for In-House Counsel? Check out the interview below with the editors of PLI’s new Financial Services Mediation Answer Book (2017 Edition) .

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Financial Services Mediation Answer Book is available on PLI PLUS, our online research database. If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.

New Update! Faber on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting (7th Edition)

Release #4 is now available for Faber on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting (7th Edition)

Faber Patent Claim Drafting 7th ED“This work must be included in the library of anyone who considers himself or herself an attorney [in the field].” – The Licensing Journal

A trusted working tool for more than two decades, Faber on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting spotlights proven claim drafting practices and techniques that have been firmly established by patent authorities and custom. Faber on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting provides full coverage of U.S. Supreme Court and other court decisions critical to claim drafting. It is an indispensable guide for patent specialists and other intellectual property attorneys, corporate counsel, patent agents, patent officials, and inventors.  Among the topics covered in the recently updated book are the following:

  • Patent eligibility—computer-related claims: Several recent Federal Circuit opinions emphasize that patent claims directed to data processing or pure software can be patent-eligible. Software modifications that improve functioning or capacity of a known system are generally patent-eligible. This applies to improvements in computer functionality or solving technology-based problems, even with conventional generic components when combined in an unconventional manner. It is recommended to disclose and discuss the practical benefits of the claim in the specification. The differences from the art, the technological improvement, and the reasons for this may convert what appears to be known technology into something patent-eligible. See 1:5.5, at note 88.3.
  • “Visually negligible”: Words of approximation are not restricted to words like “about,” “approximately,” and “substantially.” The Federal Circuit held that “visually negligible” was definite because the specification provided examples of visually negligible indicators, namely an objective baseline to determine what is visually negligible based on what can be seen by the normal human eye, and neither the examiners nor the experts during prosecution and reexamination had apparent difficulty determining the scope of this term (Sonix Technology Co. v. Publications International, Ltd.). See § 3:19, at note 389.1.
  • Claims in continuing applications—claim construction: According to the Federal Circuit, where more than one patent derives from, that is claims priority to, a common parent, construction of the same claim in two or more of those patents should be the same, since they are all based off the same disclosure and specification (Trustees of Columbia University v. Symantic Corp.). See § 5:5, at note 43.1.

The updated Treatise is available on PLI PLUS, our online research database.  If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.

2017 Edition – Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Answer Book

 

FATCA Answer Book_NWForeign Account Tax Compliance Act Answer Book (2017 Edition) provides a detailed analysis of requirements with which U.S. taxpayers with overseas accounts must comply.

Written and edited by Matthew D. Lee (Fox Rothschild LLP), this question-and-answer guide walks the reader through every aspect of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requirements. The book explains FATCA terms and concepts, identifies which foreign financial institutions (FFIs) are covered by the Act (over 155,000) and which countries (over 100) have signed, or indicated their willingness to sign, bilateral tax treaties with the United States (called Intergovernmental Agreements), and describes the obligations placed upon FFIs under the Act.

Additionally, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Answer Book provides guidance on how to create an acceptable compliance program and what is required to register as a foreign financial institution.

This new edition is available on PLI PLUS, our online research database. If you’d like to order a print copy, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.