Telecommunications

  • Management of patent prosecution by the firm for one of the premier wireless telecommunications companies in the nation.
  • Successfully upheld in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals BellSouth Telecommunication's statewide right of way charter.
  • The Stites & Harbison state and local tax team provides comprehensive state and local tax representation to telecommunications providers, including representation in federal court of the country's premeir long-distance and wireless providers in litigation that invalidated a Kentucky law prohibiting telecommunications providers from separately stating the Kentucky gross revenues tax on bills to customers
  • The state and local tax team represented a group of pay phone providers in litigation over whether payphone services should be subject to Kentucky sales tax under the terms of an ambiguous statute
  • The state and local tax team represented a competitive local exchange carrier in a property tax dispute concerning the value of its operating property.