Happy Halloween from DuetsBlog! I write today regarding a scary subject: unregistered intellectual property. The horror! Ask any IP professional about registration, and you’re likely to hear that registration is one of the most important steps in protecting IP. Whether it is a patent, trademark, or copyright, registering IP often provides the IP owner
Government
How would a corporation run a country?
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– Aaron Keller, Managing Principal, Capsule
In a recent meeting, someone dropped a forecast on the table stating that Google was on track, in five years, to become the world’s first trillion dollar company (currently they are $382 B). This is built on a virtual monopoly in the area of online advertising and now…
Protecting the World’s Most Valuable Non-Brand
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– James Mahoney, Razor’s Edge Communications
“Brand” and “branding” are the current darlings of the fashionista class. They’re rapidly driving those terms into the realm of cliché by busily associating them with practically everything you can think of.
But in the midst of branding’s 15 minutes of fame, a potentially crippling challenge faces the non-brand…
The Merger of Two Great Cities
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