The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) apparently is about to confront some potentially significant issues involving intellectual assets (IA’s), including intellectual property assets (e.g., patents). More specifically, the PCAOB “is a nonprofit corporation established by Congress [through the Sarbanes-Oxley …

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More than 100 large company CEO’s recently identified their top 5 “overall priorities.”   (See December 9, 2014 Wall Street Journal, R2.)   Those priorities are: 21st-Century Workforce Pro-Growth Fundamentals Modernize Infrastructure Taper Capital Gains Tax Empower Healthcare Consumers Somewhat surprisingly, strong …

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