Crypto Tax 101: Clean Up
Crypto Tax 101: Clean Up Advising crypto projects on tax issues can sometimes feel like being back in law school, wrestling with your professor’s brainteasers—but with much higher stakes. For instance, when a DAO that may or may not have any contractual relationship with an entity generates income, whose income…
Crypto Tax 2025: Renewed Focus on Reporting
The incoming Trump administration has been sending strong signals of reversing course on cryptocurrency and embracing the nascent industry. Not only is Trump selecting Paul Atkins to replace Gary Gensler as SEC Chair, he is forming a presidential crypto advisory council. Replacing Gensler with a pro-crypto SEC Chair could signal…
Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo Represents Sano Intelligence on Sale of its Assets to One Drop
Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo LLP represented Sano Intelligence in its agreement to sell its assets to One Drop. One Drop, a leader in digital care solutions for people living with diabetes and other chronic conditions, acquired all of the assets and intellectual property of Sano Intelligence, an innovator in…
Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo Represents Hyphen on its sale to Betterworks
BSV represented Hyphen, a leading employee listening and engagement platform based in San Francisco, in it sale to Betterworks. Betterworks will integrate Hyphen and its products in the Betterworks software solution for enterprises to have the capability to generate actionable insights from their workforce and create goals to drive measurable…
Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo Represents Arcadia Data on Sale of Assets to Cloudera
Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo LLP represented Arcadia Data in its agreement to sell certain of its assets to Cloudera, an enterprise data cloud company. Arcadia Data provides data analytics tools such as its ArcEngine technology that enables enterprises to obtain faster and deeper analysis from data on cloud platforms. …
Patent-Filing Tip of the Day, a Ditty on the Importance of Accurate Inventorship
While sailing on the Chesapeake Bay this past Labor Day weekend, my mind started to drift (as it often does while sailing) to patent-law-related issues, and at some point the following question popped into my head: who actually invented Labor Day? But the Bay was crowded, and visions of Title…
Inventors and Coders Beware: What was Once Capital Gain is Now Ordinary Income
The headlines for the 2017 tax reform focused on the reduction in the corporate tax rate and the new passthrough tax deduction. But the tax reform wasn’t only about decreasing taxes: it increased some tax rates. For example, certain self-generated intangible assets are now treated as ordinary assets taxed at…
Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo Represents Cipher Browser in Acquisition by Coinbase
Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo LLP represented Cipher Browser in its acquisition by Coinbase, as reported by Coinbase on April 13. Cipher Browser is a decentralized app browser and wallet for the Ethereum blockchain, while Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange. Following the acquisition, Coinbase will integrate Cipher Browser into its own…
