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A curious consequence of Microsoft’s earth-shattering $70 billion buyout of Activision is that Xbox now owns legendary PlayStation franchises Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. Sony made these games in collaboration with Universal Interactive back in the 90s, but that company was acquired by Vivendi which later merged with Activision to form Activision Blizzard.

Microsoft has now purchased Activision Blizzard – and all of its intellectual property and development teams – meaning that it’s to become the incumbent custodian of Crash and Spyro, assuming the acquisition closes. Many had hoped that Sony would, one day, wrangle the rights to the series back – but that looks impossible right now.

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Microsoft has agreed to acquire publisher Activision Blizzard, the technology giant has announced. The deal is valued at $68.7bn (~£50.5bn), according to a report by Reuters. RELATED: Blizzard President J. Allen Brack steps down Microsoft has announced that both entities will continue to operate independently until the transaction closes. A company-wide email posted on the Activision […]

This week’s Patent and Design data has been compiled from the Official journal of patents and designs, published by the patent office on the 14th of January 2022. These statistics are presented to you by the Patent attorneys and experts of BananaIP Counsels, India’s leading Intellectual Property Firm. INDIAN PATENT STATISTICS A total of 1,208 patent applications have been published in the 2nd issue of the Patent Journal, 2022. Out of the 1,208 applications published in the journal, 266 applications…

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LAS VEGAS, NV, UNITED STATES, January 12, 2022/Plato Data Intelligence./ -- Stephen A. Crystal, Founder of SCCG Management, announced today that senior gaming and...

An elusive threat actor called Earth Lusca has been observed striking organizations across the world as part of what appears to be simultaneously an espionage campaign and an attempt to reap monetary profits. "The list of its victims includes high-value targets such as government and educational institutions, religious movements, pro-democracy and human rights organizations in Hong Kong,

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / January 17, 2022 / Telescope Innovations Corp. (“Telescope” or the “Company“) (CSE:TELI) announces that it has filed a Patent Cooperation Treaty (“PCT“) patent application for its scalable manufacturing methods to produce psilocybin and related tryptamine compounds. This application claims the priority date of a preceding provisional application filed with the United […]

Lokesh Vyas writes in with a post pondering the existence of a ‘right to research’ (r2r) in India. The query around r2r in general is not a new one – see for example Appadurai’s widely cited 2006 paper by the same name, or SPARC’s Coalition formed back in 2009. Lokesh attempts to find grounding for it in Indian law through the current post. He is an LLM Candidate (IP and Technology) at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL), InfoJustice Fellow...

Woman-led startup aims to disrupt the video games industry by empowering users to create their own purposeful video games

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New research has revealed that intellectual property and licensing are among the most significant issues facing the rapidly growing e-sports industry.

The emergence of e-commerce, in which a wide range of goods are readily accessible, is leading to increasing overlap between the sales channels and target consumers of goods or services designated by different marks.

Trademark registrations in early 2020 on the small island state of Cape Verde reflects the seismic shift created by coronavirus for IP teams at large pharmaceutical groups.