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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AALL 2019: The need for total transparency

On July 29, 2019

By Eric Podlogar In Events

The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting was held from July 13th to the 16th in Washington, DC hosting legal information professionals. John Wiora, Kim Swanson, Eric Podlogar, Josh Riegle, and Jake Sweeney represented ktMINE at the event. This year’s turnout was better than years past, with around 1,500 attendees. From a market

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NASA: More Than A Space Agency

On July 25, 2019

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

NASA Technology Transfer The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is commonly associated with space shuttles, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and unmanned missions to Mars. However, NASA’s work is also relevant to everyday life on our home planet.  NASA studies our planet, Sun, solar system and beyond, but America’s space program is closer to home

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Food for Thought: Agritech and Food Startups

On July 11, 2019

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

In a previous article, ktMINE reported that more than 20% of animal protein is lost to disease, which can have serious consequences for food security. In 2009 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations predicted that food production would need to increase 70% by 2050 to feed a projected 9.1 billion people. By

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Oh, Say Can You IP

On July 3, 2019

By Amy Westrick In Intellectual Property Trends, Posts

Independence day is meant to be spent grilling out in the backyard with friends and family until it’s time for the classic Fourth of July tradition — fireworks. Americans spend more than $1 billion on fireworks each year, totaling up to a jaw-dropping 268 million pounds. So, in honor of the Fourth, the ktMINE team

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