This is the second half of our  webinar recap.

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As a business owner, innovator, and someone looking to grow, you appreciate mistakes happen from time-to-time. It comes with the territory of pushing boundaries and doing what the vast majority don’t, but that isn’t to say you can’t transform even your biggest business mistake into your greatest success yet.

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As we’ve previously noted, intellectual property infringement is something of an issue in China. Whatever the underlying reasons might be, the proliferation of counterfeit goods is a problem for manufacturers concerned with losing market share to knockoff copies of their products. Innovators both in the US and abroad have to be vigilant of possible infringement, and willing to take action to stop copycats. One California startup did just that.

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Recently I had the pleasure of delivering my feisty co-founder’s Investment in Legal Tech Darwin Talk in Toronto, Canada. As I was preparing, I thought how much other legal tech startups could benefit from hearing about some recent fundraising efforts.  I reached out to Evolve Law members who have raised capital and added in my Traklight experience.

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Given today’s media landscape, it’s hard for television shows to gain the sort of popularity that their predecessors did in decades past. The one show that has come closest to the notoriety of its network sitcom predecessors is The Big Bang Theory. GIven how fragmented viewing audiences are, the show is as close to a cultural touchstone as we may have, regularly topping the ratings and views on streaming services. But now TV’s most popular sitcom finds itself in a copyright lawsuit over one of its songs.

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This blog was originally featured on the Evolve Law blog.

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When it comes to geek culture, passion is what drives the industry. Sure, making money is ultimately the bottom line, as it is in every other industry, but those dollars come from passionate fan bases that are invested in shows and films and books that they love. One need only look at the recent success of The Force Awakens to see that passion on display. It is that investment that has allowed many of these franchises to maintain such a long life. The first Star Wars movie came out in 1977. Doctor Who has been on and off the air for over half a century. And Star Trek is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, a show that has become synonymous with zealous fans. But the studio behind Star Trek is less than thrilled with fan-made projects springing forth from that zeal.

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Recently I was part of a group of legaltech entrepreneurs discussing the long sales cycle into the legal industry and the glacial pace of technology adoption.  After spending the few years working with more than a thousand legal professionals, a few theories emerged.  I posed the two following questions online to learn more about the near paralysis of change in the legal industry.

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This is a guest post from David A. Kalow, Counselor and Attorney at Law: IP Strategy.You can find him on LinkedIn here.

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Many companies find themselves in the crosshairs of so-called “patent trolls”. Smaller businesses often don’t have the resources to take on a protracted legal battle, regardless of outcome, and as such look to settle in order to avoid exhausting their resources. But large corporations with considerable resources and crack legal teams aren’t immune from the scourge. With massive sales and market share comes a target on your back from non-practicing entities(NPEs) that see a way to exploit their patents to a huge payday if they win. And one such NPE just received a second decision against a tech giant.

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