Three Contenders?

On December 12, 2019

By Ariel Greenway In Intellectual Property Trends, IP Education, Posts

Google, IBM, and Amazon have made frequent appearances lately in news stories about the coming age of quantum computing. Google claims to have achieved “quantum supremacy”, while IBM wants readers to take that information with a grain of salt. Amazon for its part has recently begun to offer cloud quantum computing through Amazon Web Services.

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Patented Recipes From Around the World

On December 9, 2019

By Ayana Stubblefield In Intellectual Property Trends, IP Education, Posts

If you are in the market for food ideas to impress the crowd, let us help. Since a patent must be “novel” and not “obvious,” a patented recipe is promising for those in search of a creative dish. However, due to the structured nature of a recipe, it is difficult to make novel alterations that

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Talk Turkey to Me: The Patented Technology Behind Thanksgiving

On November 26, 2019

By Amy Westrick In Intellectual Property Trends, Posts

The average American consumes around 3,000 calories on Thanksgiving. However, that’s just for dinner. If you plan to partake in appetizers, drinks, and desserts that total could rise to a hefty 4,500 calories. While the classic turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, and casseroles never seem to change, the technologies behind preparing and serving them are constantly

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The Rise of Delivery by Drone

On October 31, 2019

By Ayana Stubblefield In Intellectual Property Trends, IP Education, Posts

In a time where human-interactions are becoming digital, the popularity of online shopping is a natural development. This trend has heightened competition among companies that offer eCommerce. In order to gain an edge, many companies are trying to answer: how do we increase the speed and accuracy of our deliveries? And drones may be just

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Rage, the Trademark Thrower

On October 28, 2019

By Ariel Greenway In Intellectual Property Trends, IP Education, Posts

Banksy, the world-famous and still unidentified street artist who has made a habit of shattering expectations and questioning assumptions in the art world, has once again found himself in a trademark dispute. This most recent dispute against Full Colour Black, a contemporary art licensing company that specializes in the commercialization of street art, is characterized

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IPO 2019: We are witnessing the fourth Industrial Revolution

On October 3, 2019

By Eric Podlogar In Events, Posts

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) Annual Meeting was held from September 24th to the 26th in Washington, DC hosting over 1,200 intellectual property professionals. Eric Podlogar, Kim Swanson, Josh Riegle, and Jake Sweeney represented ktMINE at the event.   The Lay of the Land Unfortunately, the vendor booths were located on the basement floor

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Down the Hatch

On October 2, 2019

By Ariel Greenway In Intellectual Property Trends, IP Education, Posts

Most people don’t think of technology as something that you would eat, but there are a number of inventions that indicate ingestible devices might become more important in the future. While some uses such as capsule endoscopy are already established, others are more recent like the use of sensors to monitor whether patients take their

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What is Huawei Up To?

On September 25, 2019

By Ayana Stubblefield In Intellectual Property Trends, IP Education, Posts

Recently surpassing Apple in the worldwide volume of smartphone shipments, Huawei is China’s largest privately-owned company, with a revenue of 102 billion dollars in 2018. This past May, Huawei was put on an export blacklist (though currently on its second 90-day reprieve) by the U.S. government due to “national security or foreign policy interest.” This

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McDonald’s and McDonagh: What the Mac?

On September 5, 2019

By Julia Justusson In Intellectual Property Trends, IP Education, Posts

Supermac’s is Ireland’s largest fast-food restaurant group, serving an average of 320,000 customers per week. Pat McDonagh, the founder and CEO of Supermac’s, has been trying to expand his company into the rest of Europe since 2014. However, McDonald’s, the ubiquitous fast-food chain, has been in conflict with Supermac’s over trademark and branding issues for

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Tech on the Brain

On August 15, 2019

By Ariel Greenway In Intellectual Property Trends, IP Education, Posts

Last month, Elon Musk finally announced what his most science-fiction-y company has been up to — developing a robotic “sewing machine” that sews electrode arrays into the brain. The threads will hopefully be used as a brain-computer interface (BCI) or “wizard hat” as Tim Urban’s popular Wait But Why article calls it. In the future,

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