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Mapping Mastercard’s Innovation Journey Through Patents
Introduction Mastercard was founded in 1966 and is a global technology leader in payments industry. It operates a financial network that...
Oct 10, 2025
Standardization of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens)
NFT standards define how to create Non-Fungible Tokens on a specific blockchain system. The well-known ERC-20 tokens
Jan 30, 2024
Protecting Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Under Intellectual Property (IP)
An NFT is the creator's signature on the content, similar to an autograph on a baseball card, making it rare, special, and expensive.
Nov 9, 2022
Blockchain for Media Streaming
Blockchain has the potential to assist the media streaming industry significantly. The key characteristics of blockchain's shared ledger...
Jan 10, 2022
What are Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts and Why Should You Care?
“A smart contract is a self-executing contract with the terms of the agreement between buyer and seller being directly written into lines...
May 11, 2021
Tokenized securities on blockchain are here. And they’ve been around for a while.
Remember tokenized securities or securitization with tokens on the blockchain? With the entire year in crypto defined by a maelstrom of...
Dec 2, 2020
IP Becomes Even More Integral To M&A Due Diligence
What is Merger and acquisition (M&A)? Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business...
Aug 24, 2020
Understanding Open-Source Software and License Regimes
Open-source software today has not only allowed programmers to write increasingly complex software – but also democratized the software...
Mar 17, 2020
Startup Valuation: How to calculate what your startup is really worth?
A startup is a company that is in the first stage of its operations. Venture capital is a type of funding for startups or growing business.
Jan 20, 2020
Freedom To Operate: A technical insurance against patent infringement claims
“Without Freedom, there is no Creation” - J. Krishnamurti An innovation is useful only if there is freedom to test, market, or sell...
Nov 6, 2019
Understanding Source Code Quality and Design Quality During Technology M&A
With thousands of transactions and billions of dollars spent on technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) every year, buyers must protect...
Nov 5, 2019
Tokenization : Future of Payment Security
Along with the many gains that come with going cashless today, financial digitisation also gives way to a massive influx of cyber crime....
Apr 30, 2019
Patent Alert: IBM Awarded DLT Patent for Data Sharing and Validation
US Patent no 10,268,528 B2 was granted to IBM on April 23, 2019 that describes a method which uses distributed ledger technology (DLT)...
Apr 25, 2019
Patent Alert: PayPal Patent Can Protect PCs From Ransomware Attacks
Online payments company PayPal has been awarded US Patent No. 10262138B2 that describes a technique to combat ransomware attacks. The...
Apr 22, 2019
IBM wins $82 million against Groupon over e-commerce patents
A U.S. jury awarded IBM $82.5 million after finding that Groupon infringed four of its e-commerce patents. It had been a running battle...
Aug 9, 2018
Decoding Apple Pay
With the latest update of iOS, Apple has started following a rather ‘intrusive’ policy in getting their customers on board their Apple...
May 7, 2018
PayPal Accuses Paytm of Trademark Infringement in India
On November 18, 2016, PayPal Inc. filed an objection at the Indian Trademark Office accusing Paytm of trademark infringement, an Indian...
Dec 26, 2016
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