#intellectual-property

#intellectual-property

On Aug. 21, SPILL Chief Growth Officer Kenya T. Parham called out 72andSunny on LinkedIn after the agency announced SPIL*, a Gen Z news platform in Europe, "built from scratch" by its Amsterdam team. The post was quickly deleted after SPILL users flooded the comments with backlash over the striking similarities, prompting Parham to slam the agency for what she called an "attempted theft." "They tried it, we clocked it, and instantly. And thank God the culture always keeps receipts," Parham said in a video explaining the controversy.

Commercializing inventions requires not only capital but also an emotional investment by the inventors. Visionaries pay for that ambition with insomnia, time away from family, and job insecurity.

The Acting Director has discretionarily denied more than 60% of PTAB Petitions and referred about 40% to the PTAB, which found over 90% merit worthy.

Judge Kness systematically dismantled the doctrinal foundations of 'Schedule A' litigation, posing questions about its compliance with civil procedure and due process.

CEO Bob Iger described Disney Adventure as a floating ambassador for the company's intellectual property. He emphasized the importance of expanding into Southeast Asia.

In today's complex regulatory environment, companies that embed legal thinking into their core strategy gain a clear competitive edge - protecting intellectual property, navigating emerging markets and building reputations grounded in trust and compliance.

The U.S. and its citizens should not be the ones to shoulder the burden of subsidizing the world's access to drugs and biologics. Nor should the U.S. patent system - the envy of the world - be made the scapegoat for the lack of lower drug costs domestically.

According to the indictment filed on July 31, Risan, 70, allegedly offered and sold stock and stock conversion in his software company, Media Rights Technologies, Inc., and his music streaming service, BlueBeat, Inc., to investors based on false representations, including false claims of BlueBeat's copyright ownership of approximately 2.5 million songs by various well-known artists.

"Appointing an experienced Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator would send a strong signal to our trading partners that the United States is committed to addressing imbalanced pharmaceutical pricing."

The White House unveiled its AI framework, interpreted by marketers as a hands-off approach to AI regulation that could set a precedent for the ad industry.

I shared my unique business idea with my friend, confident it was something no one else in Ireland had attempted. My excitement was palpable.

The steady acquisition by publishers of tools used by academic institutions for evaluations and hiring decisions leads to the consolidation of sensitive data about American researchers.

"You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for."

The Plant Patent Act of 1930 allows for the patenting of newly discovered and asexually reproduced plants, including cultivated sports, mutants, hybrids, and seedlings. It, however, excludes tuber propagated plants and those found in their natural state.

DesignVision functions as a centralized tool for querying multiple industrial design data sources and is part of the USPTO's effort to tackle the patent examination backlog.

The Smurfs go to the real world for the same reason they do everything else in the movie, which at different points invokes the multiverse, serves up bewildering lore, and includes a pillar-of-light showdown out of a superhero movie - because no one involved in it has any idea what they're doing.

All the President's Men, Spotlight and The Insider are classic movies based on journalism - they follow reporters through the drama of uncovering something unbelievable.

Brazil has filed 4,819 patent applications in Latin American countries between 2002 and 2021, indicating its strong innovation ecosystem and regional leadership.

"A lot of the consumers that we're seeing on social media, on TikTok, are so proudly displaying the dupes that they found, kind of as a badge of honour. That stigma really isn't there anymore."

Varda Space has raised $187 million to build a lab for producing pharmaceutical components in space, aiming to use zero gravity for crystallization of biologics.

OpenAI is implementing enhanced security measures to safeguard its intellectual property from corporate espionage, largely prompted by the release of a competing model by Chinese startup DeepSeek.

Movies used to be explicitly funny, with audiences expecting to pay for laughter. Now, humor has become a tone diluted across various genres, failing to deliver true comedy.

Stephanie Cohen, Cloudflare's chief strategy officer, stated, 'The change in traffic patterns has been rapid, and something needed to change. This is just the beginning of a new model for the internet.'