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June 20, 2025 andreweverett360

AI notetakers: Legal Issues

Attorney Cameron G. Shilling wrote an article for New Hampshire Tech Alliance Newsletter titled AI Notetakers: Do They Comply with the Law?  (October 16, 2024).

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March 26, 2024March 25, 2024 andreweverett360

Can you Copyright a Golf Course? Not Yet…

Kirk Hartung wrote an article titled The BIRDIE Act: Copyrights for Golf Courses (March 21, 2024).

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March 23, 2024March 24, 2024 andreweverett360

Can You Patent a Pizza?

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley co-hosted a Gastropod podcast episode titled  Can You Patent A Pizza? (March 5, 2024, 49 minutes). Guests included Anthony Mongiello, inventor of stuffed crust pizza; Chris Sprigman, law professor, NYU; Valerie Flugge, assistant professor of business law, California State University, Northridge.

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December 12, 2023December 10, 2023 andreweverett360

Masimo vs. Apple Watch

Katherine Laidlaw wrote an article for The Hustle titled Will this be the last Christmas you can get an Apple Watch? (3 December 2023).

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September 2, 2023 andreweverett360

Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work

Jocelyn Moveck and Matt O’Brien wrote an article for the Associated Press titled Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work (31 August 2023).

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August 16, 2022 andreweverett360

What ever happened to Google Books?

James Somers wrote an article for the Atlantic titled Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria (April 20, 2017).

« “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.” »

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February 15, 2022February 14, 2022 andreweverett360

Brand Naming: Washington Commanders

John Keim wrote an article for ESPN titled Washington Commanders: Inside the NFL franchise’s search for a new nickname and logo.

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April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 andreweverett360

intellectual property in small and medium enterprises (IP for SME)

The US Patent and Trademark Office (UPSTO) hosted a webinar on April 26, 2021 for World Intellectual Property Day 2021. The theme was “small businesses taking big ideas to market.”

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September 28, 2019September 22, 2019 andreweverett360

How Xerox’s Intellectual Property Prevented Anyone From Copying Its Copiers

Jessica Silbey wrote an article for Smithsonian Magazine titled How Xerox’s Intellectual Property Prevented Anyone From Copying Its Copiers. Continue reading “How Xerox’s Intellectual Property Prevented Anyone From Copying Its Copiers” →

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