Gambling is increasingly shifting to the Internet. But how did the industry manage to shift the business to the computer? There are many reasons that speak for playing in an online casino, for example, that betting online is possible at any time of the day. Users do not have to leave the house but can […]

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Supposedly, the New Legends Stage of the CS:GO Majors is full of upsets as the supposedly stronger teams take some time to get up to speed and gain match sharpness against those that survived the gauntlet of the previous stage. Do the numbers bear out this observation?

After over a year of playing online, the Stockholm Major is both a return to form and a step into a bold new world. Rising stars from the online era, legacy teams looking to restore themselves to glory, and hegemonic CIS teams all meet in a blender of a competition that promises only one thing: Chaos.

Welcome back to The SaaS Playbook, a bi-weekly rundown of the top articles, tactics, and thought leadership in B2B SaaS. Not a subscriber yet? ⚾ There is plenty of talk about the benefits of employing a product led growth (PLG) strategy, but much less on how to actually implement one. Shimon Tolts, CEO of Datree.io shared the

The innovation patent has been Australia’s second tier patent right since 2001, but it is now being phased out.  Just over two months have now passed since the final day on which new, original (i.e. not derived from an existing application) innovation patents could be filed.  As of 26 August 2021, the only way to obtain an innovation patent application is by division or conversion from an application that itself has a filing date on or before 25 August 2021.  Innovation patents have a maximum term of eight years from the initial filing date, and thus after 25 August 2029, at the latest, there will be no more innovation patents.  Predictably, the number of innovation patent applications being filed grew significantly during the weeks and months leading up to the final deadline, driven in large part by applications of dubious merit originating in China and India.

So how did filing numbers end up?  And why has it taken two months for me to get around to this analysis?  Well, to answer the second question first, the huge deluge of applications – nearly 2,800 over 25 days in August, over half of which were filed in the final six days – created a backlog that IP Australia is still clearing.  As at the time of writing, there remain around 300 innovation patent applications that are yet to be processed in any way, meaning that details of who filed them, and who the applicants are (and where they are from) remain unavailable.  At this point, however, a clear picture is emerging.  Furthermore, there is some evidence that IP Australia has been prioritising the order in which the remaining applications are being processed according to the workload involved, such that almost all unprocessed applications were filed by Indian applicants.

In the final days, Australian resident applicants filed innovation patent applications in unprecedented numbers, apparently driven primarily by those who had received advice from patent attorneys about the final deadline and the implications of the phase out of the innovation patent.  Indian and Chinese applicants continued to fleece the system for cheap patent certificates, accounting for over half of the applications filed in August.  Filings originating elsewhere in the world increased only modestly, suggesting that genuine demand for innovation patents by foreign applicants remained relatively low until the end.

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Crowdfunding platforms are booming now that the concept of crowdfunding is becoming increasingly popular. A lot of businesses and entrepreneurs are trying to bite a chunk out of this profit pie, and we can’t really blame them. If you’re planning on creating a sustainable crowdfunding business, now’s probably the best time for you. “How to start a crowdfunding site?” is one of the most commonly asked questions by people who’re willing to start a crowdfunding business. In this article, we’ve decided to discuss this in detail. Read this till the end if you want to learn about building crowdfunding websites. […]

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The scope of protection of a trade mark registration is a key question faced by trade mark practitioners when advising on rebrands. The recent Oatly case [Oatly AB v Glebe Farm Foods Limited [2021] EWHC 2189 (IPEC)] raises some interesting questions in the context of a likelihood of confusion and unfair advantage. Oatly owned a...

Talk about the passing of the torch: OG’s TI8 spirit was embodied by, well, Team Spirit, a young underdog side coming out of nowhere with a cocky in-your-face playstyle on the biggest stage of them all to take the Aegis of Champions for themselves.

OG’s reign is over, but it seems there’s a new Cinderella in town. It’s just a shame we never got to see the last dance of the back-to-back-winning squad.

On 1 September 2021, Sony’s ‘Vita’ trade mark lost out in genuine use revocation proceedings in the EU General Court (see case T‑561/20). The trade mark Vita had been registered by Sony for a variety of class 9 items, including “data carriers containing programs” and “audio and/or image carriers (not of paper).” Vieta Audio applied...

As Alphari heads into the final day of Groups, he doesn't look forward, doesn't look back. He simply works to realize the ideal top laner that he knows he can become - and to make his trip to NA worth it all.

After eight years the first Bitcoin ETF could almost be here. Will it be everything we’ve been waiting for?

You gotta hand it to the Winklevii: they were ahead of the curve. Through their freshly minted Gemini exchange, Tyler and Cameron applied for the very first Bitcoin ETF