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Former NBA turned Beijing Duck Basketball Pro Dunks Federal Criminal Tax Charges: Ex-Pats Beware

York Faulkner

Sep 29, 2021
9 min

Former NBA turned Beijing Duck Basketball Pro Dunks Federal Criminal Tax Charges: Ex-Pats Beware

In addition to the burden of multi-jurisdiction tax compliance, expatriates living abroad therefore face potentially more expansive...

Acting on Contradictory Motivations before FDA & USPTO Results in Unenforceable Patent

York Faulkner

Sep 19, 2021
5 min

Acting on Contradictory Motivations before FDA & USPTO Results in Unenforceable Patent

"Not long after these information exchanges with FDA, Belcher filed its patent application before the USPTO—where, acting on motivations...

Plaintiff Bypasses Hague Convention and Serves Complaint & Summons on Chinese Company's U.S. Lawyers

York Faulkner

Sep 13, 2021
6 min

Plaintiff Bypasses Hague Convention and Serves Complaint & Summons on Chinese Company's U.S. Lawyers

This decision may impose unfortunate consequences, for example, on Japanese companies since on December 21, 2018, Japan formally objected...

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