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Nintendo’s Aggressive Intellectual Property Strategy: A Case Study in Patent Enforcement

Brett Trout

Recently, the companys aggressive enforcement of its intellectual property (IP) has taken center stage, with high-profile lawsuits targeting game modders, emulator developers, and companies like Pocketpair, the creators of Palworld.

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Nike vs. Lululemon: The Battle Over Flyknit Technology

Brett Trout

Brett Trout Nikes reputation as an industry leader in athletic footwear is built on a foundation of innovation and aggressive protection of its intellectual property. This legal battle is significant because Lululemon only recently entered the sneaker market in 2022. The case was settled in 2022.

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Justia Ask A Lawyer by the Numbers: Fourth Quarter 2022

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

While the Justia Ask A Lawyer forum receives questions from across each of the available practice areas, these five practice areas were the most popular in the fourth quarter of 2022: criminal law , family law , real estate law , landlord-tenant law , and divorce. Which States Submit the Most Questions?

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Exclusive Analysis: Legal Tech Exits, 2001-2022

LawSites

The top three categories based on dollar values were e-discovery, intellectual property and tax. The most lucrative investments historically are in intellectual property and tax. The top three categories of deals, based on numbers of deals, were e-discovery, practice management and contract tech.

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Tangibly Raises $6.5M Seed Round To Further Develop Its SaaS Trade Secrets Management Platform

Above the Law - Technology

Trade secrets are fast becoming the most important category of intellectual property assets, and the need for better enterprise tools to manage them is clear to global enterprises across industries,” Tim Londergan , Tangibly’s cofounder and CEO, said in a statement. “We The company last year raised $1.3 million in pre-seed financing.

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Fast Fashion Creating Even Faster Copies?: Examining Shein’s Intellectual Property and Racketeering Suit

The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

The online retailer jumped in sales from $10 billion in 2020 to $100 billion in 2022, surpassing the sales of both Zara and H&M combined. However, independent designers are accusing Shein of something much more sinister: systematic and rampant intellectual property theft amounting to racketeering.

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Exclusive: NetDocuments Acquires Afterpattern to Provide Native Document and Workflow Automation within its Content Management Platform

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NetDocuments will provide more details on the integration early in 2022, it said. The company said that Afterpattern will be natively integrated into the NetDocuments platform, in order to allow customers to further focus on the “create” aspect of the document lifecycle.