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The strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) that started in May finally ended in late September, after almost 150 days, with a new Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA) with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), a trade associ… Read More

Everything you need to know about the different IP issues you may come across—and what you can do to prevent them. In the past few decades, both private equity and venture capital firms faced waves of developments and industry-wide evolutions that… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a ruling by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) against tobacco company Philip Morris, which had tried to overturn an R.J. Reynolds e-cigarette patent. The patent generally relates to tobacco smoking dev… Read More

A Digital Wallet, also known as an e-wallet, is software, an online service, or an app that allows businesses or individuals to make financial transactions digitally. It’s more commonly used through smartphones for convenience but can also be acces… Read More

In East Asia, one country has shown promising results, with South Korea seeing exponential growth in its startups. In the last decade alone, funding into the startup industry has been on the rise, culminating in an investment of approximately $6.4 bi… Read More

3D printing technology has come a long way since Hideo Kodama first developed it in Japan in the 1980s. Back then, Kodama was figuring out a way to establish a fast prototyping system and created a layer-by-layer approach for manufacturing using a ph… Read More

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) has found that Duracell can register a sensory (sound) mark for “batteries” in International Class 9. As Duracell’s trademark application describes it, The mark is a sound. The mark consists of three… Read More

After enduring years of pandemic-related restrictions, lockdowns, layoffs, and uncertainty, nations across the globe are gradually reopening. Employees return to their offices as restrictions ease, and consumers seek new products to embrace a post-pa… Read More