The Challenges of Searching the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Website

Searching the public records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website for intellectual property collateral is becoming a ...

5 Tips for Federal Intellectual Property Due Diligence

Modern day public record due diligence transactions require more than the UCC, state and federal tax liens, judgment liens, litigation and ...

Public Record Due Diligence: Judgments vs. Judgment Liens

If you are responsible for conducting public record due diligence searches, you will end up conducting UCC, state and federal tax lien, ...

The Importance of Federal Intellectual Property Due Diligence in Mergers and Acquisitions

Are you involved in merger and acquisition transactions? Have you noticed an increase in the amount of intellectual property owned by merging ...

Dusting Off the Ol’ UCC Brain Cells

Vacations are likely over, the Labor Day holiday weekend is a distant memory and schools are back in session. Even if school days are well ...

How Some State Tax Lien Laws are Changing

Georgia Reverses Course on Some of its Recently Enacted State Tax Lien Law Changes

In our January 11, 2018 blog post, we informed our readers about newly enacted changes to state tax lien (STL) law in the state of Georgia. At ...

Georgia Changes State Tax Lien Law

Note:  Subsequent to this posting, new Georgia legislation was enacted changing some of the new provisions. For details, see our posting on ...

Significant Change to Where State Tax Liens are Searched in Illinois

Effective January 1, 2018, due diligence searchers need to make an addition to their search strategy for state tax liens in Illinois. As of ...

An Unintended Space Can Render a Financing Statement Seriously Misleading – At Least in Wisconsin!

Case: United States SEC v. ISC, Inc., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139258 (W.D. Wis. Aug. 30, 2017)