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Christmas gifts from the great inventors
Many of us love it, others try to ignore it, but at this time of year there’s no escaping it. Matt...  »
Litigation/ IP Management/ Patents/ Trademarks

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Luck versus skill: The dicey history of board game IP
As the year’s biggest sales period for board games gets underway, Matt Packer explains how these colourful entertainments conceal decades of tinkeri...  »
IP Management/ Patents/ Trademarks/ Domains
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IP’s odyssey to the Clarke side
Sir Arthur C Clarke predicted many things – but could he have foreseen that his work would one day be roped into an IP dispute? Matt Packer looks at...  »
Litigation/ Regulatory & Compliance/ IP Management/ Patents
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There’s something awfully familiar about this place…
Fake handbags, garments and perfumes are so last week. Matt Packer reports that counterfeiters in China have something altogether bigger in mind: enti...  »
Regulatory & Compliance/ IP Management/ Trademarks

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