Speakers: Nancy Le Blanc & Janet Cole (Tentative) of IRS
What: (1) Business Networking Mixer (6:00pm - 6:55pm)
(2)CLE Presentation (7pm-9pm):
"Appeals Update & New
Return Preparer Preview"
When: September 08, 2010 (2nd Wednesday of the month)
Topic Areas:
Where :
Cardinal Pacific Escrow Education Center
Suite
105
6621
E. Pacific Coast Highway
Long
Beach, CA 90803
(Located on the corner of PCH &
Second Street/
/Westminister, at "The MARKETPLACE".
Building 6621 is both directly behind building
behind building 6615, and is faced
by the front of
the
United Artists Long Beach Marketplace 6
Theaters.)
Cost: Complimentary for all attendees; Free & Ample Parking
CLE/CPE SPONSOR: HARRINGTON & HARRINGTON
CLE/CPE CREDIT For
Attorneys, CPA's & Enrolled Agents:
2.0 hours of MCLE
credit for Attorneys
2.0 hours of MCLE TAX
SPECIALIZATION CREDIT
2.4 hours of TAX CPE
credit for CPA's & EA's
Accreditation
Source:
(1) State Bar of
California, Tax Specialization Provider 15203
(2) Harrington
& Harrington is an IRS Approved
Education Provider - No. 672
Questions? Call Curt Harrington at (562)-594-9784
Future Mixer and CLE/CPE
Programs:
Date
Program
Speaker
October 13, 2010 Criminal Investigation
TBA
November 10, 2010 Pass Throughs
Layton Pace
December 08, 2010 TBA
TBA
Check back with the website: http://www.patentax.com/CLE , for any last-minute updates!
Educational Facilities
Sponsor: Cardinal
Pacific Escrow
History and Benefits of the PATENTAX® TALK SERIES:
This lecture series began October 2009 to meet several needs:
1. In the current economy
where CLE/CPE rates for tax
specialization talks average $30 per hour, a low-cost alternative
is needed. Anyone who has knowledge of a PATENTAX® TALK
can confer a significant benefit upon anyone able to attend.
Please pass this information along to others who can attend.
2. The Long Beach Area has
traditionally lacked a tax discussion
Forum and has lacked the local availability of tax specialization
CLE/CPE credit for CPA's, Attorneys, & Enrolled Agents.
3. Members of the Public
are too-often offered a "commercial"
concerning a variety of legal topics. The are usually given
scant
information and are not often given a chance to hear talks
of the type that practitioners attend for continuing education.
The PATENTAX® TALK has content in sufficient depth to
justify continuing professional education credits from both the
State Bar of California & IRS, and yet is also open to the
public.
4. The PATENTAX® TALK was designed as an experiment to
determine if non-"super technical" tax topics could be
selected
to draw equal amounts of attendance from tax specialists (tax
practitioners including tax lawyers, CPA's & Enrolled Agents)
and non-tax specialists (general attorneys and members of the
public), especially if the talks were offered for free to
everyone.
5. What is PATENTAX® ; Who is Harrington & Harrington?
Our objective is
protection of the client's technology & business,
and taking advantage of tax provisions in the
client's startup &
ongoing business, licensing, & end of business
cycle. We
recommend asset protection where possible, and the
purchase of
insurance for patent infringement where applicable
(which can help
to put the client on a more substantial defensive
stance). We are
generally not an IP litigating firm, as we are
focused upon helping
clients conserve & preserve their holdings
rather than simply cause
litigation drainage, as well as positioning for
more advantageous tax
treatment. We want to talk with people who need
help in creating
and protecting intellectual property and in
helping the client take
advantage of tax provisions benefiting them.
Technical areas
include electrical engineering, chemical engineering, & mechanical
engineering, tax problems, intellectual
property tax problems relating to patents and
trademarks. We try to help every
client start business the right way by selecting the
proper trademark which is not descriptive
of the goods and services, preferably not a
dictionary term, no last names, no
geographics and neither scandalous nor closely related
to another mark. Why? Because such a mark
will: (1) maximize goodwill. (2) Reduce the
probability of trademark lawsuits, the cost
to you of which are generally NOT
DEDUCTIBLE, (3) Reduce the probability of
confusion and having the return from
advertising expenditures end up in your
competitors pockets, and (4) Maximize the tax
effects and the control effects at the end
of your business life so that a low tax rate sale
(capital gains if possible), or a more
secure sale (owner financed if need be) is achieved.
If you pick a bad mark, the litigation and
loss of the advantages that could have been
had are difficult to overcome. Our
objective is all of these things, as well as a smooth
trademark application process.
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