Maryland Legal Alert - February 2019

Attorney Margaret Witherup Discusses the Stormwater Fee with Frank Andrews

Maggie Witherup appeared as a guest on WILK NewsRadio.

Guarantor Held Liable for Punitive Damages for Submitting False Borrowing Certificates and for Amount Due Under Loan

On January 23, 2019, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, following trial, entered judgement

Credit Card Surcharges and Merchant Fees

The credit card market is essentially a two-sided transaction platform where the major card associations (like MasterCard, Visa, and American Express) control both sides of the platform.

Secret Sales of Inventions May Invalidate a Later Patent Filing

A secret sale of a device may start the clock running for when patents must be filed. On January 22, 2019, in Helsinn Healthcare v.

Landlords Should Get Active and Seek the 199A Safe Harbor

The 20% deduction for pass-through income provided by Internal Revenue Code Section 199A applies only to income from a “trade or business.” To be engaged in a trade or business for federal income t

New Rules for Entities Taxed as Partnerships and New Partnership Tax Return (Form 1065)

Opportunity Zones 101: Everything You Need to Know About Baltimore's OZs

Doug Coats will speak at a Bisnow breakfast, "Baltimore Opportunity Zones: Everything You Need to Know About The Policy Revolutionizing the Capital Stack," in a session entitled, "Opportunity Zones

Patent Eligibility: Find the “Practical Application”

It should become easier to obtain patents for computer-implemented inventions, now that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published revised guidance on what constitutes patent-e

2018 Survey of Activities Identified as Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Under the Dodd-Frank Act, Part Two