Need some good reading material? Here’s a quick recap of the top February IP news stories we loved diving into this month!
- “Earlier this year, 15 top U.S. universities joined forces to launch a one-stop shop where corporations and startups can discover and license patents.” – From dorm rooms to board rooms: How universities are promoting entrepreneurship, TechCrunch
- “Lowood had been inspired by Kathy Cotton, a longtime Silicon Valley recruiter-turned-archivist. She saw that no one was telling the stories of the many Black engineers and software developers she knew were important to the tech industry’s success.” – Filling the archives with stories from Black Silicon Valley, Marketplace
- “LOT Network, the nonprofit that helps businesses of all sizes and across industries defend themselves against patent trolls by creating a shared pool of patents to immunize themselves against them, today announced that TikTok parent ByteDance is joining its group.” – TikTok parent ByteDance joins patent troll protection group LOT Network, TechCrunch
- “Spotify subsidiary Gimlet Media LLC’s win against claims that its “Reply All” podcast infringes software company Reply All Corp.’s trademarks was upheld by the Second Circuit on Friday.” – Gimlet’s Win in ‘Reply All’ Podcast’s Trademark Fight Affirmed, Bloomberg Law
- “With an abundance of curated class materials uploaded to university drives, critics have flagged problems related to intellectual property rights and the repurposing of recorded lectures: Will faculty essentially automate away their own jobs by recording lectures that can be recycled year after year?” – How a Dead Professor Is Teaching a University Art History Class, Slate
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