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Do trade secrets matter? It is not at all clear if you ask the stock market

The IPKat

What happens when trade secrets meet the stock market? But what if markets didn’t really care about IP? My co-author Professor Andy Vivian and I are trying to better understand IP’s role by analysing the market reaction to the theft of a company’s trade secrets. Plot twist: the market is remarkably nonplussed.

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Infographic | Barbie movie

Olartemoure Blog

These new dolls captured about 40% of Barbie’s market share in five years, creating tension between Mattel and MGA. In 2011… However, the verdict was later overturned in 2011 when the court rejected Mattel’s claims and instead sided with MGA. The court awarded MGA over $137 million for copyright infringement.

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3 Count: ACTing Fast

Plagiarism Today

First off today, David Saleh Rauf at Edweek Market Brief reports that ACT has emerged victorious in a legal fight against their competior WIN as an appeals court has upheld a legal victory for the prominent testing organization. According to the lawsuit, ACT and WIN were partners for nearly 15 years before their partnership ended in 2011.

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Downturn for Book Business?

Velocity of Content

The independent nonfiction press launched in 2011 and claims to have sold more than 50 million units since. In a statement on Monday, Callisto did not identify any specific reasons for the move, although the decline in juvenile nonfiction sales is certainly one reason, Albanese suggests. The post Downturn for Book Business?

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Fireside Chat Series: Bulls, Bears, and Blockchain

LexBlog IP

Join BakerHostetler for our series of Fireside Chats about the latest developments impacting the capital markets and their participants, and the blockchain industry.

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Publishers: Internet Archive’s Sales Data Demand is “Burdensome and Irrelevant”

TorrentFreak

However, the parties cannot reach a compromise so IA is now demanding access to detailed book sales performance data for all books sold since 2011. “Here, IA self-evidently harms Plaintiffs’ existing markets by refusing to pay the customary fees that aggregators pay to distribute the same ebooks to library borrowers. .

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Shop Small on Small Business Saturday

U.S. Department of Commerce

Founded by American Express in 2010 and officially cosponsored by SBA since 2011, Small Business Saturday has become an important part of small businesses’ busiest shopping season. Get free Small Business Saturday marketing materials ?- Historically, reported projected spending among U.S. How You Can Participate . For shoppers .