CAN ESTATE PLANNING TECHNIQUES BE PATENTED? The answer is yes. Should they be patented? And how do practitioners respond to the patenting of estate planning techniques? These are tougher questions to answer. This article reviews how estate planning techniques have come to be patented, and what it all means for estate planners and their clients, and others involved in implementing estate plans.
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