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Utah Hockey Club Has 'Yetis' Nickname Rejected by U.S. Patent Office

The Utah Hockey Club might have to come up with a nickname cooler than YETI.

Sports Illustrated

Wild new SRAM patent might make turbo trainers a lot easier to use

Patent claims new indoor trainer design will allow users to install their bicycles 'quickly and easily' with limited wear

Cycling Weekly

Trump and Vance will make America competitive again, former patent office director says

China leads in 37 of 44 critical technologies, Andrei Iancu, who served as director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office under Trump, warns.

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Global Trademark Bullying Conference By GLIPS - Shields Awarded To Firms Of The Global Trademark Group

GLIPS hosted the Global Trademark Bullying Conference, highlighting the growing issue of trademark bullying in the digital era. Trademark bullies exploit u...

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Unnecessary Legislation Could Clog The Drug Development Pipeline

The Medication Affordability and Patent Integrity Act would add additional mountains of redundant paperwork requirements for biotechs to navigate.

International Business Times

Meghan Markle's logo rejection presents a golden design opportunity

The USPTO may have done her a favour.

Creative Bloq

Apple could bring Touch ID back to iPhone — but not in the way you’d expect

The latest Apple patent to appear features a smart case with fancy new buttons — and it could see Touch ID return to iPhones.

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US patent agency sides with Aussies in JP Morgan battle

JP Morgan Chase has failed in its challenge to invalidate Australian software developer Identitii's software patent.

AAP

Big Tech's abuse of the patent system must end—take it from me, I've fought Google over IP for years

The bipartisan PREVAIL Act and RESTORE Patent Rights Act would make critical reforms to curb the abuse of the U.S. patent system by Big Tech.

Fortune

This impressive Vision Pro feature will scale back on Apple's future glasses-like version

A recent patent has revealed that Apple wants to scale back its eye-tracking feature on future glasses-like versions of the Vision Pro headset.

iMore

Supreme Court: You Can't Trademark Your 'Trump Too Small' T-Shirts

As Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted during oral arguments, the right to sell a shirt is different from the right to be the only one who can sell that shirt.

Reason

Forget the Samsung Galaxy Ring – a Fitbit smart ring could be en route, according to a new patent

A newly-granted Fitbit patent for a smart ring suggests it could be working on a Samsung Galaxy Ring rival –and that's an exciting prospect.

TechRadar

Valve has now filed for a trademark for Deadlock, the hero shooter it refuses to admit exists

The trademark filing covers online games and competitions.

PC Gamer

US Patent and Trademark office says data leak affected filers

Postal addresses were leaked in an unprotected dataset sitting on the USPTO site for months.

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I went looking for the inventors building real Star Wars lightsabers and was surprised at what I found

Toy lightsabers are everywhere but is anyone building the real thing?

Tom’s Guide

Apple just filed a crucial patent for the iPhone Flip — what we know

A new Apple patent for a hinge shows that research is still ongoing into future folding iPhones and iPads.

Tom’s Guide

A future Apple HomePod could look more like a soundbar — what we know

An Apple patent reveals a HomePod with a soundbar-inspired design, and that seems like a great idea.

Salon

David Chang's "chili crunch" controversy

Chang's Momofuku Goods is coming after companies using “chili crunch” and “chile crunch” on their condiment labels

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‘Trademark bully’: Momofuku turns up heat on others selling ‘chili crunch’

David Chang’s food empire is sending cease-and-desists in what some say is an effort to dominate the spicy condiment’s market

Axios

How Silicon Valley patents are evolving in the era of AI

Use of AI systems like ChatGPT has highlighted existing ambiguity about what qualifies for a patent.

RideApart

Is Moto Guzzi Reviving The Stornello Scrambler?

Moto Guzzi filed a trademark for the Stornello name in the US. Could this hint at an upcoming Scrambler model in the near future?

GamesRadar

Could this patent hint at controllers for Apple Vision Pro?

A patent filed by Apple talks about handheld controllers for a head-mounted device - could this mean that controllers for Apple Vision Pro are on the way?

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USPTO Denies Angel Reese Trademark For 'Bayou Barbie' Nickname

LSU Lady Tigers' Angel Reese faces trademark setback with 'Bayou Barbie' due to Mattel's Barbie association. Potential collaboration for sports-fashion fusion.

Android Central

Apple just patented a sweaty trick every fitness watch could benefit from

Apple's patent shows plans for a sensor that would detect "average sweat rate or total fluid loss" over the course of a workout, integrated into the Apple Watch.

TechRadar

AI can’t patent inventions, only humans, US Patent Office says

Only a human can patent an invention, but what exactly counts as human, and how much do they have to contribute?

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