Category Archives: PLI Press

Patent Licensing: Strategy, Negotiation, and Forms

Release 9 is now available for Patent Licensing: Strategy, Negotiation, and Forms.

Even simple patent licenses involve numerous clauses and provisions. So it’s easy for the wrong words to find their way into the most basic agreements, triggering court clashes and quashing business opportunities for licensors and licensees.

This treatise makes certain that you avoid this needless trouble, by giving you the comprehensive, hands-on guidance you need to negotiate and draft fair and problem-free patent licenses.

With the help of hundreds of adaptable sample licensing clauses and provisions, this practical, plain-English resource ensures that every term, every phrase in the final, hammered-out agreement serves your client’s business interests, satisfies the other party, and minimizes the threat of disputes. Throughout, Patent Licensing warns you about and helps you ward off the legal and commercial risks associated with this intricate process, whether you’re the licensor or licensee. Included is key guidance on how to keep vital company information confidential to preserve competitive advantage.

If your library is on standing order for this treatise, you can expect Release 9 to arrive soon. If you’d like to order the release, please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.

View a sample chapter here.

National Pro Bono Week

It’s National Pro Bono week (October 25 – 29, 2010)! Is your firm or organization looking to create a pro bono program? If so, check out the newest PLI Treatise Pro Bono Service by In-House Counsel: Strategies & Perspectives.
Pro bono service in corporations, once a nascent movement, is becoming the norm. Pro Bono Service by In-House Counsel: Strategies and Perspectives gathers together the wide-ranging experiences of in-house corporate counsel to guide you how to start, maintain, and expand your company’s pro bono legal services.

This treatise recounts the experiences of representatives of several companies with in-house programs—Time Warner Inc., Caterpillar, American Express, AOL, Intel, LexisNexis Group, Starbucks Coffee Company, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, Microsoft, Accenture, Citigroup, GE. Any in-house counsel seeking to foster pro bono initiatives will thus have a menu of approaches from which to devise an appropriate program.

Book Information:

Pro Bono Service by In-House Counsel: Strategies and Perspectives, 1st Edition

ISBN Number: 978-1-4024-1482-4

Page Count: 544 pages

Item #: 28132

Price: $49.00

Immigration Fundamentals: A Guide to Law & Practice

Release #31 is now available for PLI’s Immigration Fundamentals: A Guide to Law & Practice. This treatise gives you the legal and procedural knowledge to work more efficiently and effectively with employers, aliens, nonimmigrants, refugees, naturalized citizens, and government officials.

Enhanced by advisory ”Practice Commentaries” and ready-to-use IRS forms, Immigration Fundamentals shows you how to follow all status-change procedures for employment-based immigration, family-sponsored immigration, and diversity immigration; satisfy important legal tests, such as proving ”business necessity” when hiring aliens or ”qualifying relationships” in family-sponsored immigration cases; and protect clients’ rights, whether helping aliens fight unjust removal, nonimmigrants pursue lawful entry, or employers obtain judicial review for adverse decisions.

Immigration Fundamentals also shows you how to qualify clients for relief, including legal exemptions and waivers that open immigration doors and reduce procedural headaches. And it shows how to help employers avoid legal missteps and mitigate the damage when violations are committed, by documenting good-faith compliance efforts.

If your library is on standing order for this treatise, you can expect the release to arrive soon. If you’d like to order the release please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291. To find out more about the book, click here.

View a sample chapter here.

Blattmachr on Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts

Release #3 is now available for Blattmachr on Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts. This PLI treatise offers the most comprehensive treatment of how the I.R.C. taxes estates and trusts in light of recent legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments.

You’ll find vital information on how income in respect of a decedent is taxed; a decedent’s final return; the taxation of foreign trusts, simple and complex trusts, and charitable lead trusts; income tax issues that must be addressed when using revocable trusts as an estate planning vehicle; and the taxation of estates and trusts as S corporation shareholders.

Written by authorities with more than 70 years of combined experience in the field, Blattmachr on Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts shows you how to qualify for income tax deductions for federal estate taxes attributable to the right to the IRD; tax depreciation and depletion deductions for property held by an estate or trust; income tax deductions for net operating losses for estates and trusts; and income tax deductions related to qualified production activities income.

Langer on Practical International Tax Planning

Release #20 is now available for Langer on Practical International Tax Planning. Examining more than 50 tax-advantaged territories around the world, this treatise gives you the current knowledge and savvy advice you need to help clients capitalize on ripe tax havens and financial centers.

Regularly updated to ensure you stay on top of every issue and angle vital to your tax planning, Langer gives you the latest word on the legal, tax, business, financial, social, political, technological, geographical, and regional factors you must consider when developing and implementing customized planning strategies for clients.

Stocked with case studies that illustrate sound planning approaches, Langer enables you to select the right territories for each client; deploy the right instruments within each territory to eliminate, reduce, or defer taxes; avoid planning missteps that trigger tax problems; use local contacts to open doors to tax havens (with the aid of up-to-date contact information); and respond effectively to changing tax-planning situations in specific havens and financial centers.

Deskbook on Internal Investigations Corporate Compliance and White Collar Issues

Release #5 is now available for the Deskbook on Internal Investigations Corporate Compliance and White Collar Issues.

At a time when companies are under greater legal scrutiny than ever before, executives and their legal counsel need practical, plain-English guidance on how to avoid potentially disastrous mistakes. PLI’s Deskbook on Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance and White Collar Issues provides that necessary information. Stocked with easy-to-follow checklists, the Deskbook shows you how to carry out internal investigations that spot and stop legal problems, protect the rights of employees when they’re subject to investigation or prosecution, and cooperate with government investigators in ways that help reduce legal and financial damage if wrongdoing is proved.

The Deskbook also gives you step-by-step instruction on how to put together a comprehensive compliance program that can prevent legal missteps and help companies qualify for federal leniency programs if legal violations are committed.

If your library is on standing order for this treatise, you can expect the release to arrive soon. If you’d like to order the release please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.

Friedman on Contracts

Release #10 is now available of Friedman on Contracts and Conveyances of Real Property.

For more than 50 years, PLI’s Friedman on Contracts and Conveyances of Real Property has earned praise from real estate practitioners and publications because of its straightforward, no-nonsense ability to help attorneys implement rock-solid contracts of sale in less time, with less trouble, at lower cost.

Stocked with laborsaving sample forms and checklists, Friedman gives you a crystal-clear understanding of what you should do, must do, and should never do at every stage of a transaction, from inception to post-closing.

If your library is on standing order for this treatise, you can expect the release to arrive soon. If you’d like to order the release please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.

New Treatise Available – Sovereign Wealth Funds

PLI just published a new treatise entitled Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). Although they’ve existed for many years, the first decade of the 21st century saw a substantial surge in the assets of SWFs. This, coupled with a more aggressive investment style, has resulted in a much greater awareness, by both governments and the public, of SWF activity. In turn, this has generated an ongoing policy debate about the proper role of government regulation and taxation of these funds.

In Sovereign Wealth Funds, noted international tax lawyer Leonard Schneidman has assembled an array of essays, authored by a global collection of subject area experts, designed to explore three key aspects of SWFs: their regulation and governance, investment behavior, and taxation. If your library or organization is interested in the SWF phenomenon and its practical legal, tax and financial implications—this is a valuable resource.

Book Informa tion:

1st Edition
ISBN Number: 978-1-4024-1481-7
Number of Volumes: 1
Page Count: 378 pages
Item #: 28131
Price: $225.00

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Certification Denied in Wellbutrin Case

A federal judge decided not to certify a class action against GlaxoSmithKline, the makers of Wellbutrin. The consumer and indirect purchaser class action sought to show that there was a plan to maintain higher prices of the drug Wellbutrin. A federal judge refused on the grounds that there wasn’t enough to prove that each member was affected. This has been touted as a “significant win for big pharmaceutical firms.”

Interested in learning more? PLI held its annual seminar Developments in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law 2010. The accompanying course handbook is now available and provides valuable insight.

Antitrust Settlement Reached

It was reported that an agreement was reached between Department of Justice (DOJ) and Visa and Mastercard on the fees that these companies charge merchants. This is good news for customers and store owners because the DOJ estimated that the fees cost merchants $35 billion and that those costs were passed on to customers. In addition the DOJ announced that they filed an antitrust suit against American Express.

Interested in learning more about antitrust issues? Every year the PLI holds the Antitrust Insititue and publishes the accompanying course handbook by the same name. The Antitrust Institute 2010 course handbook is available here.