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The Fintech Revolution And The Its Adoption By Financial Regulatories

IP and Legal Filings

Therefore, credit cards are considered the first invention towards financial technology. Since then, modifications and inventions have resulted in its evolution in various sectors ranging from Banking and Finance to its introduction in our everyday services such as online grocery shopping, cab service, food service etc. Act, 2007. [ii]

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Free Certificate Course in Application of Intellectual Property Rights for Startups and Entrepreneurship [November 22- 23]

SpicyIP

Intellectual Property Rights (“IPR”) law empowers such techno-entrepreneurs to protect their ideas and inventions from misappropriation and encroachment by others, and thereby, enables them to unlock the true potential value of their intellectual property.

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[GuestPost] Opinion: Patent trolling threatens the market of taxi aggregators in Kazakhstan

The IPKat

The subject matter of the patented invention must be new at the time of filing a patent application. The open sources of information reveal that for seven years of work the Kazakhstani company paid only KZT5,700 in taxes ($ 13.30 : KZT2,100 ($ 4.90) in 2016 and KZT3,600 ($ 8.40) in 2018, and the number of employees is fewer than five people.

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Two Ideas to Improve and Balance the Defend Trade Secrets Act: A Safe Harbor Rule and Early Trade Secret Identification

LexBlog IP

Since its enactment in 2016, the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) has become the most important trade secrets statute in the world. There has been a steady increase in filings of trade secret cases under the DTSA, as they doubled from 2016’s 476 filings to 2020’s 1,008 filings. Here is the proof. Why these changes?

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Biosimilars 2020 Year in Review

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Yet 2020 saw a slowdown in biosimilar activity with the lowest number of annual biosimilar approvals since 2016 and fewer product launches than 2019—as well as a decrease in district court litigation and post-grant proceedings. No earlier than July 31, 2023 per settlement. No earlier than November 20, 2023 per settlement. .

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A Seismic Ruling Undone: California’s Sound Recording Copyright Statute Does Not Include Public Performance Rights—Flo & Eddie v. Sirius XM (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

It was certified as a class action on behalf of a large number of sound recording copyright owners (but excluding the major record labels, which had already entered into a separate settlement with Sirius XM). That settlement left Flo & Eddie’s lawyers representing a class of only about 20% of the pre-1972 sound recording copyright owners.

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WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

LexBlog IP

” That is because religion is big business, as the Washington Post noted in detailing a 2016 empirical study on the socio-economic contribution of religion to American society. “ find out knowledge of witty inventions.”: include[es] the contribution of businesses with religious roots. places the value of faith to U.S.