August 19, 2010
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"The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations" is scheduled for Thursday, September 30 - Friday, October 1 in Las Vegas. The conference will feature attorneys from Polsinelli Shughart's Nonprofit Organizations group speaking on a wide variety of issues facing tax-exempt organizations. Click on the link for topic details and registration information.
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August 17, 2010
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June 28, 2010
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Bilski v. Kappos and eliminated some of the uncertainty that had been caused by the Federal Circuit's bright-line machine-or-transformation test for patentable subject matter of method patents. As a result, there will be continuing patent protection for computer software, computer-based business methods and medical diagnostics.
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May 24, 2010
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The Treasury Department has issued Notice 2010-45, which established the Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project Tax Credit Program pursuant to the provisions of the Affordable Care Act of 2010. The Notice establishes the rules, definitions, forms and procedures for applying for the $1 billion of tax credits or grants (for taxpayers that are in a loss position) for up to 50 percent of "Qualified Investments" made or expected to be made during the 2009 and 2010 tax years in Qualified Therapeutic Discovery Projects (each, a "Project").
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February 25, 2010
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As part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) released on December 30, 2009, an Interim Final Rule (IFR) that was published in the Federal Register on January 13. That IFR detailed the initial set of standards, implementation specifications and certifications criteria that must be achieved in order to demonstrate the first stage of the "meaningful use" of electronic health record (EHR) technology and, by doing so, establish eligibility for various incentive programs.
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