What convicts can teach us about branding
By Mike Kammerling of London-based Tinder + Sparks. In September 2009, Neil Stansfield of Northamptonshire was jailed for over two years for buying own-brand, non-organic supermarket food, repackaging it as well-sourced organic produce and selling it on at a huge markup to highly reputable food retailers. On the one hand what he did was a […]
Test Your Trademark
From David Airey’s excellent blog: How good is it legally? Patent lawyer Frederick Breitenfeld offered some help back in the 50s. According to this, Frederick Breitenfeld was a member of the bar of the state of New York; associate member of the United States Trademark Association (now the International Trademark Association); and member of the […]
Amazon’s Cloud Drive Takes on Dropbox with File Syncing
From Mashable.com by Samantha Murphy Is Amazon gunning to replace Dropbox and Google Drive? Its latest file-syncing feature for its Cloud Drive service may indicate so. The online retailer announced on Monday users of its Cloud Drive Desktop app will now be able to access files such as music, movies and documents across multiple computers […]
Renaissance portraits recreated as photographs
From LaughingSquid.com: Florence-based photographer Mark Abouzeid faithfully recreated Renaissance portraits as photographs in his 2012 photo series “The New New World.” [Full article]