This Week’s Buzz: Toxic Substances, Gift Tax Exemption, NBA Needs Money, Bogart & Burberry, More

What we learned this week. FYI:

Manufacturers of consumer products sold in California need to comply with the California Department of Toxic Substances Control’s new Safer Consumer Products regulations (Allen Matkins) 

Can’t give it all away? You can still take advantage of the 2012 gift tax exemption (but not for long) (Is That Legal?) 

The NBA’s solution to shore up lagging revenues? More advertising (Loeb & Loeb) 

Humphrey Bogart won’t be back on Burberry’s Facebook page any time soon (Kilpatrick Townsend) 

There’s a new exchange for buying and selling intellectual property “unit license rights” (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff) 

Do business with Iraq? There’s a new tax reporting requirement for you (Bryan Cave) 

Psst – wanna buy a used software program? Head to Europe (Patton Boggs) 

It’s 2012, and workplace lactation rules still don’t serve the rights of employees or their employers (Davis Brown) 

“Your money or your privacy” could become the new standard holdup line (Mintz Levin) 

T-Mobile will get to build its “monopine” tower in West Bloomfield (Michigan) after all (Davis Wright Tremaine) 

Insider trading defendants could claim that they were merely sharing information with “relationships of trust and confidence.” But they’re not (Morvillo Abramowitz) 

The EPA is betting that fracking can be “green” by 2015 (we’re a poet and we know it) (Sedgwick) 

Your mother was right: sometimes it’s best to not say anything at all (especially when you’re under government investigation) (Patterson Belknap) 

TSA employees called up for active military duty are now entitled to get their jobs back when they come home (Xpert HR) 

When was the last time you used that health and fitness app on your smartphone? Don’t worry, you’re not alone… (Fenwick & West) 

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