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An Anniversary, and Asteroid Mining

This week Planetary Resources, a company that aims to mine asteroids, is celebrating their one-year anniversary.  They are toasting the date with a Google Hangout on April 24th where they will, “provide a brief year in review, current status on the development of the...

Using Technology to Combat Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a pervasive yet underemphasized issue that persists all around the world. The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking estimate that millions of people are or have been trafficked into forced labor, and projects that, without...

USPTO denies Apple’s iPad Mini trademark

Recently Apple has been a prominent topic of discussion in intellectual property disputes. Most of the talk has been focused around various international disputes over Apple’s patents. The most recent topic, however, focuses on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s...