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The Amazon Tax: Coming soon to a state near you

April 30th, 2009 / General

Background: Last year, New York started requiring certain out-of-state online vendors to collect and pay New York sales tax on purchases made by New York residents. This has become known as the “Amazon tax,” because Amazon was one of the high profile sites affected and embroiled in the ensuing controversy. In order to impose sales…read more

Google Adwords: Liability for using trademarks as keywords

April 21st, 2009 / General

The Battle: A battle has raged for some time against Google because it sells trademarks as keywords in its very profitable Adwords service. Businesses may purchase keywords containing the trademarks of their competitors. So, when the competitor’s trademark is entered as a search term, Sponsored Links of the company that purchased the keywords will appear…read more

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