News of the Week; November 6, 2019

GAMES

  1. Blizzard president gives vague apology for Hong Kong protest response
  2. Blizzard president J. Allen Brack apologizes for bungled Hearthstone punishment
  3. Hong Kong protesters shine, but don’t quite spark at BlizzCon
  4. Blizzard’s substance-less BlizzCon statement speaks volumes | Opinion: Allen Brack’s speech rings hollow as company changes no policies, stands by Hearthstone pro’s ban for supporting Hong Kong protesters
  5. Allen Brack apologizes for Blizzard’s “tough Hearthstone esports moment”: At BlizzCon, company president alludes to ban of Hearthstone player Blitzchung for pro-Hong Kong support, welcomes protests
  6. Brack confirms Blizzard won’t repeal Blitzchung ban: The sanction against the casters won’t be withdrawn either, Blizzard’s president said
  7. Blizzard won’t reverse Hearthstone pro’s Hong Kong protest suspension: Blizzard boss shifts some blame for initial decisions to Chinese publishing partner.
  8. Blizzcon: Blizzard Apologizes For Banning Blitzchung, Keeps Him Banned, More Fallout Ensues
  9. Hearthstone developers think Blizzard was “too harsh” with Blitzchung: But creative director Ben Thompson said that taking control of a platform that is “very much not your own” is not free speech
  10. Xiaomeng ‘Liooon’ Li is the first woman to win Hearthstone GrandMasters: Li is also the first woman to win a major competition across all Blizzard games at Blizzcon
  11. China fears young people are addicted to video games. Now it’s imposing a curfew
  12. China gaming regulator publishes new rules for minors targeting playtime, spending: Age-rating system still in the works as restrictions are tightened, expanded to mobile games
  13. “If we’re going to be drug dealers, let’s not literally mine for addicts”: At Reboot Develop, indie publisher Mike Wilson used the game addiction debate to call for devs to “be intentional” about what they create
  14. Video: Addiction science and advice for devs on promoting healthy play
  15. ‘Fortnite’ Pro FaZe Jarvis Banned From Game For Life After YouTube Videos Showed Him Cheating
  16. Aimbot video leads to lifetime ban for popular Fortnite pro
  17. General Court says that relevant public’s attention is ‘average at best’ when assessing likelihood of confusion relating to games and computer games (“Dungeons” is confusingly similar to “Dungeons & Dragons”)
  18. Reselling Digital Video Games Now entering the age of the digital yard sale?
  19. ZeniMax ordered to issue refunds for Fallout 76 in Australia: Well, this can’t be good.
  20. ZeniMax to offer refunds for faulty Fallout 76 in Australia: ZeniMax admits it likely misled consumers over their digital rights
  21. ZeniMax to grant Fallout 76 refunds under pressure from Australian commission
  22. Less than half of US gamers purchased in-game content last month – SuperData: Additional content spending stagnating on PC and console as players gravitate toward fewer titles overall
  23. Fabulous investigating after Devolver Digital accuses its app of ripping off Gris
  24. Self-help app “investigating” after accusations of stealing art, animation from Gris: Devolver Digital shares side-by-side comparison of Fabulous video, Gris gameplay and cutscenes
  25. Brendan Greene: “I [only] have one woman on my team, and I hate that” – At the View Conference, PUBG’s creator discussed hiring for diversity, and why education will be the best long-term solution
  26. Amazon blocks sales of all unauthorised Nintendo products: Third-party sellers now need platform holder’s approval before selling second-hand games or hardware
  27. Amazon reverses sudden restriction of third-party “Nintendo product“ sales
  28. Report: Amazon cracking down on third-party sales of Nintendo products
  29. Switch Lite sells strong at launch, as total Switch sales near 42M
  30. Nintendo: Switch Lite is expanding the Switch market, especially with women
  31. The Nintendo Switch has sold over 10 million units in Japan 
  32. The Nintendo Switch has sold 10m units in Japan: Japanese sales make up nearly one-fourth of total console sales (including the Lite)
  33. UK Charts: Luigi’s Mansion 3 is the biggest Switch launch of 2019 (so far) – At least until Pokémon comes along
  34. Nintendo Profits Lifted by Switch Lite Sales
  35. Nintendo has nearly doubled its first-party game sales in 2019 
  36. So far, game spending is over $27 billion for 2019 in the US 
  37. US gamers have spent $27.9bn in 2019 so far: Spending is only up 1% over 2018 year-to-date, with hardware sales down 23%
  38. How Arcade1Up found a sweet spot for scaled-down home game cabinets
  39. Abbey Games ‘scoping down’ and terminating all employee contracts by 2020
  40. Call of Duty was the UK’s best-selling game in October
  41. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare dominates the EMEAA charts – Meanwhile, FIFA fends off new releases The Outer Worlds, MediEvil and WWE 2K20
  42. Supercell scraps upcoming title Rush Wars after failing to find the fun
  43. Supercell shuts down Rush Wars after three months of beta: PvP strategy title cancelled due to “repetitive” nature, concerns about longevity
  44. Profits down 48.1% for Rovio Entertainment in Q3: Angry Birds dev in discussions to potentially lay off staff as The Angry Birds Movie 2 falls short of expectations
  45. PS4 slows as the transition nears | Opinion: Sony’s next year will be vital; as PS4 sales decline faster than expected, can the company balance support for its older console with building excitement for the new?
  46. Retrospective: As Sony Clearly Wins This Generation’s Console Wars, Let’s Recall How It All Began
  47. Watch Dogs Legion, Rainbow Six Quarantine and Gods & Monsters heading to PS5, Project Scarlett: Delayed Ubisoft titles will be joined by two unannounced AAA games in the next fiscal year
  48. Industry veterans form ‘diverse and inclusive’ studio Brass Lion Entertainment
  49. Brass Lion Entertainment aims to diversify the industry: New studio from AAA vets will focus on original games “that center on Black and Brown characters, cultures, and stories”
  50. Epic Games Store update brings new navigation and in-game store options
  51. Epic adds free Infinity Blade content to Unreal Engine Marketplace
  52. Does French streaming platform Shadow have its head in the clouds?: Co-founder Emmanuel Freund on opening up games to more people, the tech side of things and Google’s entry into the space
  53. F1 extends licencing deal with Codemasters until 2025: Codemasters has extended its deal for exclusive video game rights for the Formula 1 World Championship until 2025, with an option for a further two years.
  54. Modern Warfare dev compares game’s “awareness building” to Schoolhouse Rock: Narrative director responds to criticism about ‘Highway of Death’ mission: “This is not some kind of propaganda”
  55. Modern Warfare. Modern Warfare never changes.: 10 Years Ago This Month: No Russian turns the mass shooting into mass market entertainment and Nokia buries the N-Gage for good
  56. Which platforms are publishers and investors really interested in?: Xsolla shares lessons from its funding club and offers advice on how to impress potential investors
  57. Death Stranding is Kojima unleashed, and it’s as weird as you’d expect
  58. Death Stranding: Critical Consensus – A haunting experience that succeeds in spite of its own clumsy excess, Death Stranding arrives to frequently mitigated praise
  59. Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions to start making movies
  60. Hideo Kojima to venture into film production: “Games, films and dramas will have to compete in the same space,” Death Stranding director said
  61. Blizzard announces Overwatch sequel at BlizzCon
  62. Overwatch 2 announced, will be cross-compatible with original game: Overwatch surpasses 50 million players, all of whom will be able to PvP match with, transfer cosmetics to Overwatch 2
  63. Jeff Kaplan: Leaks impact developer morale more than anything else
  64. Hearthstone Battlegrounds is Blizzard’s card-based take on auto chess
  65. Blizzard confirms Diablo IV is coming to consoles and PC
  66. Diablo IV is revealed, sure looks like a supercharged Diablo II
  67. Designing the gameplay and aesthetic of Diablo IV
  68. Don’t Miss: David Brevik’s tale of designing the original Diablo
  69. Blizzard is adding ethnically diverse character skins with World of Warcraft: Shadowlands: Fifteen years after launch, players will be able to customise their character to match their ethnicity
  70. Wargaming partners with Gearbox for its first full retail release: World of Warships: Legends will get a retail version in Firepower Deluxe Edition
  71. Vainglory dev Super Evil Megacorp raises $10.5 million as it refocuses on next project
  72. Super Evil Megacorp closes $10.5m financing round as it prepares to launch new project: Vainglory developer hands off publishing responsibilities for its cross-platform MOBA to Rogue Games
  73. Improbable and Tencent Cloud team up to help devs bring games to China
  74. Improbable partners with Tencent Cloud for game development program: New Improbable/Tencent Cloud Developer Program to support creators making games in SpatialOS for the Chinese market with cloud services
  75. Unity acquires 3D application streaming platform creator Obvioos
  76. Unity acquires cloud application streaming service creator Obvioos: French studio begins aligning Furioos’ 3D application streaming tech closely with development platform
  77. Video: Inside BioWare’s embedded QA process
  78. Video: Advice for game devs on creating believable heroes
  79. Zordix secures $1.4 million in funding, acquires Dimfrost Studio
  80. Chad Wild Clay And Vy Qwaint’s ‘Spy Ninja’ Mobile Game Surpasses 3 Million Downloads
  81. Games industry international trade bodies unite on universal esports principles: Set of four principles for engagement agreed upon by representatives of the ESA, ESAC, UKIE, ISFE, and IGEA
  82. Yoshinori Ono on Street Fighter’s road to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: The Capcom producer discusses the Intel World Open, a tournament that aims to break the barriers to entry for esports
  83. Esports tournament platform Mainline closes $6.8m funding round: Funding led by Work America Capital will help expand software platform
  84. Report: Embattled real estate startup WeWork mulling esports investment
  85. Esports Org 100 Thieves Signs Rapidly-Ascending Twitch Star ‘Brooke AB’
  86. Another major streamer leaves Twitch, this time for YouTube
  87. YouTube Steals CouRage From Twitch As The Celebrity Streamer Gold Rush Heats Up
  88. CouRage Becomes Latest Streamer To Ditch Twitch — In Exclusive Deal With YouTube Gaming
  89. 100 Thieves’ Jack “CouRage” Dunlop signs YouTube exclusivity deal: Dunlop asks over 2m Twitch subscribers to follow him as exodus of major streamers from Twitch to other platforms continues
  90. Twitch Teams With Analytics Provider Moat To Measure Its Unblockable ‘SureStream’ Ads
  91. Longtime NASCAR Exec Lou Garate Switches Lanes, Becoming Twitch’s First Global Head Of Sponsorship Sales
  92. Twitch CEO Emmett Shear On How Moderation Creates Communities: Twitch is bigger than it’s ever been, and here’s how it’s going to change
  93. Mixer Price-Matches Twitch, Dropping Monthly Creator Subscription From $5.99 To $4.99
  94. New Oculus Social Tools Will Help VR Feel More Like a Place, Less Like a Game
  95. Facebook CEO: ‘VR is Taking Longer Than Expected, but We’ll See It to Mass Adoption’
  96. Reality Gaming Group expanding to China: Chengdu government will help promote the studio and its flagship game Reality Clash, as well as AR and blockchain tech
  97. Rumor: Apple Reportedly Partners With Valve to Develop AR Headset
  98. Toys R Us partners with Snapchat to create AR shopping experience: The augmented reality experience aims to help users with their holiday shopping
  99. Niantic opens Niantic Creator Program to fund and support AR-minded devs
  100. Niantic opens up Pokemon Go sponsored location program for smaller businesses
  101. Niantic announces Creator Program to support AR development: Pokemon Go developer also offering funding opportunities, AR development kit
  102. Braid and the beauty of not wasting time – Why I Love: A Duel Hand Disaster dev Jaycee Salinas takes inspiration from the indie time manipulation platformer
  103. Video: Advice for game devs on creating believable heroes
  104. Video: Game preservation lessons learned on EA’s biggest sports games
  105. Blog: Kickstarter lessons learned from a 300 percent funded solo project
  106. Net sales down at Starbreeze as company readies for Payday-centric future
  107. Starbreeze losses were $30.8 million for the first nine months of 2019: But company is confident reconstruction efforts and new publishing deal Payday 3 will save the studio
  108. Bake ‘n’ Switch wins big at the Reboot Develop Indie Awards: Streamline Studios’ original IP picked up GOTY, while Myst creator Rand Miller received the Hero award
  109. Don’t Miss: Designing the stealth, economy, and encounters of Horizon Zero Dawn
  110. Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC: More frames, more volumetric beauty, no Steam
  111. Don’t Miss: Composing the music of Red Dead Redemption
  112. SingStar servers slated for January 2020 shutdown
  113. Sony will close down SingStar servers in January 2020: Online sales, support and shared content will be pulled, 15 years after the series debuted
  114. Just Dance launches campaign to raise money for Alzheimer’s Research UK: Ubisoft will donate £1 for every dance memory shared on social media
  115. U.S. Patent no. 10,252,163: Music video game with user directed sound generation

DIGITAL

  1. Twitter will ban political ads, Jack Dorsey announces
  2. Man Sues Twitter For $1 Billion Claiming His Account’s Suspension Violated His Right To Worship President Trump As A Demigod
  3. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Announces New Ban On Political Ads, Takes Shot At Facebook
  4. Twitter Bans Political Ads – Doing What Broadcasters are Forbidden to Do
  5. Twitter is rolling out Topics, a way to follow subjects automatically in the timeline: Starting with more than 300 subjects across sports, gaming, and entertainment
  6. Former Twitter employees charged with spying on users for Saudis
  7. Twitter’s Decision To Ban Political Ads Is A Moderation Choice Itself That Likely Will Backfire In Its Own Way
  8. 8chan gets back online—and is promptly forced off again
  9. Breaking the law: How 8chan (or “8kun”) got (briefly) back online
  10. Devin Nunes Demands Satirical Internet Cow Stop Making Fun Of Him… Or Else
  11. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Apologizes And Unblocks Critic Who Sued Her
  12. Why America needs a hate speech law
  13. Former Journalist Decides There’s Too Much Free Speech These Days
  14. After 10 failed logins, Giuliani had Apple Store wipe his iPhone: Report – The 2017 incident occurred shortly after Trump named Rudy cybersecurity advisor.
  15. Exclusive: U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok – sources
  16. The U.S. Government Is Investigating TikTok Parent Bytedance As A Potential National Security Threat (Report)
  17. TikTok Integrates Third-Party Editing, Posting Tools Amid Developers Program Launch
  18. TikTok’s parent company facing national security review, report says
  19. Antitrust 101: Why everyone is probing Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
  20. Competition Bureau Cracks Down on Misleading Advertising in the Digital Economy
  21. Deadspin Is Being Burnt To The Ground By Its New Management As Staff Quits Or Revolts
  22. A Thumbs-Up Emoji Doesn’t Mean That Dad Disavowed His Child–Bardales v. Lamothe
  23. Strike 3’s Copyright Litigation Campaign Completely Strikes Out (Eric Goldman)
  24. Copyright Lawyer Asks that Judge Recuse Himself for Referring to Lawyer as “Troll”
  25. No Copyright Case Too Small: Content Creators Rejoice or Casual Infringers Beware?
  26. The Fine Print of Terms of Use
  27. Ninth Circuit Preserves LinkedIn Competitor’s Data-Scraping Rights
  28. Just Another Day In Academic Publishing: Professor Posts His Own Article On His Own Website, Gets Takedown Notice Alleging Copyright Infringement
  29. Content Moderation At Scale Remains Impossible: Vaccines Edition
  30. NY Times At It Again: Has To Run Massive Correction For All The Errors In Aaron Sorkin’s Facts Optional Rant About Why Facebook Should Fact Check
  31. Facebook’s Sues Israeli Malware Marketer With A Lawsuit That Aims To Make An Easily-Abused Law Even More Abusable
  32. Courts in the EU Can Order Facebook to Remove Defamatory Content Globally and Monitor Republications
  33. Facebook changes product branding to FACEBOOK
  34. Microsoft Japan’s four-day week trial boosts productivity by 40%: Company also noted paper and electricity consumption dropped significantly
  35. Google to Buy Fitbit for $2.1 Billion: The deal represents an aggressive attempt by Google to bolster its lineup of hardware products.
  36. Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
  37. Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion
  38. What is Google going to do with your Fitbit data? Anything it likes: Fitbit’s teams could soon be working on future Pixel watches. But more importantly, what can Google do with all the health and fitness data?
  39. Hungary: Google is set to triumph over the Hungarian advertisement tax
  40. Google workers call on company to adopt aggressive climate plan: Letter signed by more than 1,000 employees calls for zero emissions by 2030 in latest wave of industry climate activism
  41. FTC Brings First Case against Developers of “Stalking” Applications
  42. Is A YouTube COPPAcalypse Coming? FTC Rules Could Start Demonetizing Creators In 2020
  43. Will the FTC Crack Down on Online Influencers?
  44. FTC to Influencers: Don’t Lie. Be Transparent. Keep It Simple.
  45. FTC Releases New Guide for Influencers
  46. The FTC Releases New Guidelines (And Its First Creator-Friendly Brochure) For Influencers Who Post Sponsored Content
  47. FTC Issues Guidance on Proper Disclosures for Social Media Influencers
  48. Key Takeaways from FTC’s “Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers”
  49. Keeping It Real: FTC Settles Cases Over Fake Social Media Indicators, Reviews
  50. FTC Imposed a $2.5 Million Fine on a CEO for Selling Fake Likes and Followers on Social Media
  51. “Good Genes?”: Maybe Not. FTC Takes Action Against Sunday Riley and Sunday Riley Modern Skincare, LLC For Employees False Reviews
  52. Actively exploited bug in fully updated Firefox is sending users into a tizzy
  53. Xiaomi’s Apple Watch clone removes everything good about the Apple Watch
  54. YouTube Ads Contain More Male Characters, But Those Starring Females Nab More Views (Study)
  55. State Court Rejects Prager University’s Lawsuit Against YouTube
  56. Prager University Loses Another Of Its Silly Lawsuits Against YouTube Over Non-Existent ‘Bias’
  57. Warner Music UK Ltd. & Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd v. TuneIn Inc. [2019] EWHC 2923 (Ch)
  58. Susan Wojcicki Joins #TeamTrees With $200,000 Personal Contribution
  59. YouTube Might Have Banned Former Trump Adviser, Sebastian Gorka, For Copyright Violations
  60. YouTube Rolls Out Latest Creator Monetization Tool In The Form Of ‘Super Stickers’
  61. YouTube rolls out Super Stickers, a new way for creators to make money
  62. These Are The YouTube Music Videos With The Highest Halloween Viewership
  63. Halloween Social Videos Amass Over 6.6 Billion Views in October Alone
  64. YouTube Testing New App Layout With Three Featured Comments Directly Under Videos
  65. RIP OG Pixel: Google ends support after just three years
  66. Google Brings ‘Shopping Ads’ Format To YouTube Ahead Of Holiday Frenzy
  67. Shopping ads come to YouTube’s home feed and search results
  68. Coldplay To Premiere New Album In Two-Part YouTube Stream From Jordan
  69. After Boxing Defeat, FouseyTube Launches New ‘YouTube Cribs’ Series With Logan Paul
  70. Shane Dawson And Jeffree Star’s ‘Conspiracy’ Launch Hits Hourslong Snag Amid Shopify Crash
  71. After Selling 1 Million Palettes In 30 Minutes, Jeffree Star And Shane Dawson Announce ‘Conspiracy Collection’ Restock
  72. David Dobrik Swipes Right On Branded Courtship With Dating App ‘Bumble’
  73. Man City: controlling brand and reputation in the age of agencies, ads and #influencers
  74. Spotify Saved the Music Industry. Now What?: Profits are hard to come by—and Apple and Amazon aren’t going away.
  75. Netflix Sinks Its Teeth Into Scripted Podcasting With Post-Apocalyptic Miniseries ‘The Only Podcast Left’
  76. Apple TV+ launches with eight TV shows and one movie
  77. Insights: Beyond Reflex, React, and Repost Journalism, NewsMatch Boosts Nonprofit Newsrooms
  78. With Vice Deal Done, Refinery29 Founders Moving Out of Management Roles
  79. Intel hits 10nm goals and signals a shift away from traditional CPUs
  80. Just Browsing: District Court Finds Browsewrap Agreement Enforceable
  81. Texas court upholds “do it on a computer” check-cashing patent
  82. Bipartisan social media data portability bill introduced in U.S. Senate
  83. Because Internet makes a linguist’s case for l33t speak, other online-text fads

A.I.

  1. The Global Forum on AI for Humanity: A Global Forum That Excluded the Globe (Michael Geist)
  2. Can An Algorithm Be An Author? (And Other AI Questions The PTO Is Now Asking)
  3. When both drivers are in error, people blame the human one more
  4. Deepfakes: is seeing still believing?

COMMUNICATIONS

  1. When does hyperlinking infringe copyright? UK High Court addresses linking to internet radio stations
  2. Warner Music UK Ltd. & Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd v. TuneIn Inc. [2019] EWHC 2923 (Ch)
  3. DirecTV kept charging regional sports fee while channel was blacked out
  4. FCC Freaks Out About Huawei, But Ignores The Internet Of Broken Things
  5. Researchers unearth malware that siphoned SMS texts out of telco’s network 
  6. Shocker: ISPs Cut Back 2020 Investment Despite Tax Breaks, Death Of Net Neutrality 
  7. Cops Now Using Warrants To Gain Access To DNA Services’ Entire Databases
  8. AT&T Will Pay $60 Million to Settle FTC Charges of Unfair Practices
  9. AT&T Enters Into $60 Million Settlement With FTC Over “Unlimited” Claims 
  10. AT&T Loses Another 1.36 Million Pay TV Subscribers Thanks To Relentless Price Hikes
  11. AT&T’s priciest “unlimited” plan now allows 100GB+ of un-throttled data
  12. AT&T users whose “unlimited data” was throttled get $60 million in refunds
  13. AT&T makes customers work to get refunds they should get automatically
  14. 5G Is Not A ‘Race,’ And We’re Incapable Of Determining Winners Even If It Was
  15. California Wildfire Cellular Outages Could Have Been Easily Avoided
  16. Changes to the Electronic Communications Code 

PRIVACY

  1. New Suit Against Spyware-Maker Demonstrates One Company’s Offensive Strategy Against Cyber Attacks
  2. ACLU Sues DOJ Over Facial Recognition Documents
  3. ACLU sues feds to get information about facial-recognition programs
  4. ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
  5. FBI’s Top Lawyer From The Apple Encryption Fight Says Law Enforcement Needs To Suck It Up And Embrace Encryption
  6. Tipped off by an NSA breach, researchers discover new APT hacking group
  7. Researchers hack Siri, Alexa, and Google Home by shining lasers at them
  8. New bill would create Digital Privacy Agency to enforce privacy rights
  9. DoD’s new cybersecurity compliance program . . . What you need to know
  10. Facebook Groups API flaw exposed data to 100 developers, company says
  11. Australia’s Idiotic War On Porn Returns, This Time Using Facial Recognition
  12. Children’s Privacy Law Updates: Tricks or Treats?
  13. GDPR fines were meant to rock the data privacy world. They haven’t: GDPR hasn’t heralded the swarm of huge fines that was predicted. But that doesn’t mean the fines so far haven’t been influential
  14. Privacy Shield Third Annual Review
  15. Ransomware Hits Hard During 2019
  16. FBI Warns of E-Skimming Threats

CREATIVITY

  1. Jean Carroll suing Trump for defamation: The 28-page lawsuit filed on Monday outlines Trump’s alleged rape of Carroll 23 years ago.
  2. Jean Carroll, Who Accused Trump of Rape, Sues Him for Defamation: The writer says the president hurt her career when he said she had lied about him attacking her in a dressing room in the 1990s.
  3. DOJ, Apparently Unaware Of 1st Amendment, Threaten Anonymous White House Official About To Release A Book
  4. 9th Circuit Revives Ridiculous ‘Shake It Off’ Copyright Lawsuit, Because The 9th Circuit Loves To Mess Up Copyright Law
  5. Bob Murray, Who Sued John Oliver For Mocking His Support Of Trump’s Plan To Bring Back Coal Jobs… Files For Bankruptcy
  6. US Government Threatening To Kill Free Trade With South Africa After Hollywood Complained It Was Adopting American Fair Use Principles
  7. The bell tolls for alleged copyright claim to skyline photo
  8. The copyright woes of Meghan Markle
  9. Believe it or not – claim based on belief in copyright fails
  10. Prince’s Foundation struck by £100 million art fraud scandal
  11. Estoppel based on patent prosecution history in Canada: The Pandora’s box is opened
  12. Hall v. Swift
  13. G-Star clothing designs not covered by copyright protection
  14. Of Passion, Prejudice and Punitive Damages
  15. Ex-Wrestlers Argue WWE Hid Risks of Head Injuries in Concussion Lawsuit
  16. Employer Pays Millions in Compensation for Employee’s Invention
  17. California Man Gets Sued After Trying To Trademark Bully A Theme Park
  18. Black Friday – Not Just Shopping Madness, Beware the Trademark Trap
  19. Splatter master Jackson Pollock avoided “coiling” when creating his paintings
  20. Spooky IP
  21. Patent Tips for Halloween

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