Rimon Law Group Opens New San Francisco Office

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New Headquarters, Expanded Technology Tools Prove Winning Formula San Francisco, CA January 6, 2010–Rimon Law Group announces the opening of a new headquarters in San Francisco and the debut of a new suite of technology tools to enable collaboration with its partners spread across the United States and abroad. “With the new…

TAX ALERT – New IRS Amnesty for Offshore Accounts

In his speech before the 23RD Annual Institute on Current Issues in International Taxation in Washington, DC on December 9, 2010, IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman said that the IRS is “seriously considering” a new partial amnesty program for taxpayers who report secret offshore bank accounts. Shulman said that the IRS may repeat a voluntary disclosure…

BBB Offers Mechanism to Prevent Deceptive Ads

As we await the release of the FTC Green Guides, advertisers also should be aware of the BBB’S National Advertising Division (“NAD”) as a potential means for dispute resolution for false advertising claims. The Better Business Bureau’s NAD offers a self-regulatory mechanism for remedying false advertising claims made in nationally distributed advertisements. The system is designed to provide a streamlined…

Watch out greenwashers; here comes the FTC

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) was created in 1914 to regulate unfair trade practices. It issued its first set of Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (commonly known as the Green Guides) under in 1992, which it then updated in 1996 and 1998. The Green Guides are meant to provide guidance to marketers so they can avoid…

Has the PTO Gone to Pot?

Pipe dreams of trademark protection for marijuana go up in smoke . . . On April 20, 2010 the USPTO issued a federal service mark registration to Sunny Chan d/ba Good Leaf Collective for the mark GOOD LEAF COLLECTIVE for “Retail store and on-line retail store services featuring medical marijuana”. Ironically (and probably much to the delight…