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Minnesota’s Attempt to Copy California’s Constitutionally Defective Age Appropriate Design Code is an Utter Fail (Guest Blog Post)

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by guest blogger Jess Miers, Legal Advocacy Counsel at Chamber of Progress [Eric’s intro: last year I blogged about Minnesota’s flirtation with mandatory age verification. That proposal died, but it’s a new year and legislatures around the country are back with a bumper crop of proposals to kill the Internet.]

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Dragons' Den IP Blog - Series 21 Episode 5

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We decided to have patents in as many markets as possible. For businesses like Manta Hair, securing design rights or patents can offer a quicker path to protection, ensuring the uniqueness of their product is safeguarded in the market. This may serve to deter people from creating a design similar to yours.

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Central Role of IP and Marketing in Business Design

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If you design IP protection into the business through your agreements, choice of brand name and other identifiers you strengthen your position against the most common and damaging forms of copying in business. Although I engaged a designer for my “branding”, all I essentially got from the expensive exercise was a logo, and a website.

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Dragons' Den IP Blog - Series 21 Episode 7

Dragons' Den

Regular readers of this blog will know how often the subject of brand comes up both inside the Den and here, on our blog. A business may get its products or services to market more quickly by acquiring a licence (link) to use existing IP, instead of re-inventing the wheel. A perfect pair?

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Dragons' Den IP Blog - Series 21 Episode 7

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Perfect for any naughty puppy owners, these cards are designed to be safe for dogs to eat. To make the most of any licencing opportunities, Gemma could also register a design for her cards, protecting the appearance of the products. You can register up to 50 designs for £150, which can last up to 25 years if renewed every 5 years.

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Why I Think California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) Is Unconstitutional

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

I’ve repeatedly expressed my opposition to the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC), and now I’ve put my opposition into more formal terms for a judge. With the pro bono assistance of Jenner & Block, I filed an amicus brief in support of NetChoice’s motion to a preliminary injunction against the AADC.

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Dragons' Den IP Blog - Series 21 Episode 6

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Emma is a fashion designer and founder of denim company, Good American. What is its appeal to the market? In IPO’s free, online, easy to use toolkit there are resources designed to help businesses identify their IP and understand how to protect, manage it and even license it to scale up their product. A design worth registering?