McKinsey Operations
AUGUST 28, 2022
Africa’s fintech industry is coming of age. In the face of political and economic challenges and a global pandemic, fintech on the continent is booming. Here’s what comes next.
TorrentFreak
AUGUST 28, 2022
Publicizing the closure of a big pirate service, the arrest of its operators, and the seizure of their assets, is a golden opportunity to discourage future crime by practical example. It doesn’t matter how successful you are, you will be caught, and your riches will be taken away, the message goes. But while anti-piracy groups and law enforcement agencies publicize headline-grabbing statistics about the services they target, it’s not uncommon for the services themselves to go unnamed
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Patently-O
AUGUST 28, 2022
by Dennis Crouch. Patent cases regularly involve expert testimony about the how a “ person having ordinary skill in the art ” (PHOSITA) might think. PHOSITA is the objective ‘reasonable person’ that serves as a reference point for most patent doctrines. Often, PHOSITA is particularly defined by some educational or experience level related to the particular area of technology.
Likelihood of Confusion
AUGUST 28, 2022
The New York Times gets it… [T]he speed at which reputations are made and destroyed in the Internet age has changed the thinking about the danger of brand names’ becoming. The post No one Timesing this story? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
Barry Sookman
AUGUST 28, 2022
Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-08-20 [link] 2022-08-21. Detoxifying the anonymous internet one troll at a time: Norwich orders [link] 2022-08-22. Publisher’s Fair Use Defense Dries Up [link] 2022-08-22. UK trade secrets: Four years on [link] 2022-08-22. Google penalised $60 million for misleading users about location data [link] 2022-08-22.
Patentably Defined
AUGUST 28, 2022
Trademarks and copyrights can often be confused with one another, but they are actually quite different. A trademark is a symbol, name, or other device used to identify the source of a good or service. A copyright, on the other hand, protects original works of authorship, such as books, articles, music, and films. . Trademarks A trademark is a symbol, name, or design that is used to identify the products or services of a particular company.
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Patentably Defined
AUGUST 28, 2022
The trademark timeline for most applications is around 13 months. It takes over a year because the USPTO receives over 600,000 applications each year, and every trademark application is reviewed by an examining attorney. Although the trademark timeline is made up of several steps and phases, it isn’t as bad as it looks. In fact, understanding the timeline can help simplify the trademarking process.
IAM Magazine
AUGUST 28, 2022
Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days
SpicyIP
AUGUST 28, 2022
In his independence day speech , the Indian P.M. Modi urged people to focus more on ‘duties’. Earlier, he said that a focus on “rights” has made India weak. Previously, President Droupadi Murmu also spoke of duties and Justice N.V. Ramana highlighted the importance of knowing our constitutional rights and duties. While I may share some sentiments with this ‘right-duty’ talk, such focus on rights-duties language makes me wonder if we are becoming dependent on “Right” in the sense of ‘right- izing
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