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Written by Patrick Muffo & Kevin Mahoney , Seyfarth Shaw Every day, companies unknowingly give up intellectual property and trade secrets which they could have otherwise protected with simple processes. Poor R&D policies may not capture patent rights on a…
Taylor Swift, a pop star with sufficient power to move mountains, succeeded in moving an equally resolute object last year: Apple Music’s position on paying royalties to recording artists. A year later it is unclear if was the musicians, Apple, or…
Richard Phillips, president of the Intellectual Property Owners Association, sent a powerful message to Washington the day before the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development regarding the U.S. intellectual property community’s stance on…
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is still on the move across the globe. ACTA has a similar aim to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) twin bills that were recently halted in the US Congress due to an effective showing…
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Are you free to use, depict, employ your favourite characters from ‘Gone with the Wind’, ‘Tom and Jerry’, ‘Wizard of Oz’, etc. over any items you use without infringing the copyrights in them? Were you thinking that…
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In this day and age, the growing trend towards technology seems to be an undeniable recognition amongst the intelligent collective that something curiously interesting is happening, and furthermore, that there is something rather enticing surrounding it.…
Google search results and news hits have become a way of life for most of us. Individuals and Corporates do what it takes to be on top of Google’s search results or news hits. Any business or event hinges upon Google for its promotion and there is…
As is commonly known, the internet has revolutionized the neo-age to a great extent. And in the past age, one company that touched the lives of probably every person who managed to access the internet is “Google Inc.”. It has been all…
'Digital Opportunity' is the report prepared by Prof. Ian Hargreaves followed by a six-month review conducted independently, which was commissioned by the Prime Minister of United Kingdom. It pertains to evaluation of the IP laws in UK and the…
Hacking the Play Station 3 The Play Station 3, a popular Sony gaming console, was said to be a closed, secure system. It might have been before George “GeoHot” Hotz, who famously was the first to jailbreak the iPhone, got his hands on the…
The famously heard-about and yet unknown secret formula for the very popular consumer beverage, ‘Coca Cola’ has made news time and again for almost the same reason—Is it officially out in public? This time, yet again, on 11 th February…
