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There was once a man who was trying to make a movie. He worked grueling hours at menial jobs, lived in a cold-water apartment, and still couldn’t get his passion project off the ground. At one point, he was so destitute that he had to sell his beloved dog for $25 to eat. But fortune […]

It’s the most popular Christmas song of all time, certified Diamond by the Record Industry Association of America with over 10 million copies sold—the only Christmas tune ever to achieve that milestone. It might be the most danceable, poppy, upbeat song ever to convey the message that a loved one is missed and wanted at

Good ideas come to ordinary people every day, especially while working. As you toil away, you might think of a better way to do the work you do, and find yourself wondering, How do I get a patent on my idea? Is this type of invention even patentable? You might also be thinking, Should I

The global response to Russia’s role as the chief aggressor in the Ukrainian war has many surprising—and chilling—implications. From rising gas prices to the heartbreaking images and stories on the news, to the resurrected specter of a nuclear war of annihilation which most people thought well and truly buried with the end of the Cold

As they often do this time of year, my thoughts have started to come back to beginnings. The previous sentence is a bit misleading, though. Beginnings are never really far from my mind. They can’t be. The very nature of my work precludes it. Every day, I meet with inventors and innovators. Some of them

Like 112 million other Americans, on Sunday, February 13th, I tuned into Super Bowl LVI to watch the Rams and the Bengals go at it on the gridiron—and catch the amazing commercials. As it turned out, the game mostly faded into a blur of noise, color and pageantry after I saw one particular ad that

The American stereotype of the loud-mouthed, aggressive and abrasive ambulance chaser has become so much a part of the mythos of the legal profession in this country that it’s practically a comedy genre in its own right. Pop culture would have you believe that rude, loud, and obnoxiously pushy attorneys are the ones that manage

Often times the greatest innovation comes from adversity! This is definitely the case for John Coban, the inventor of the Slingshirt®. Coban didn’t originally see himself being an entrepreneur but a major league baseball player.

It should be no surprise that the entire area of cryptotechnology and non-fungible tokens and their application to intellectual property law in particular has posed a number of unresolved issues.