Daily LInks
1. Making Farfetch Fashionable to Investors Again Is a Stretch. Farfetch’s misadventure has saddled it with $1.6 billion of total debt and shriveled its market capitalization to about $630 million today from a peak of $26 billion in 2021 at the height of the pandemic’s online craze. – Read More on Bloomberg
2. Big Tech wants AI regulation. The rest of Silicon Valley is skeptical. A growing group of tech heavyweights — including influential venture capitalists, the CEOs of midsize software companies and proponents of open-source technology — are pushing back, claiming that laws for AI could snuff out competition in a vital new field. – Read More on Washington Post
3. Philadelphia Eagles file trademark application for “Kelly Green.” The Philadelphia Eagles have filed a trademark application for use of the phrase “Kelly green” as the debut of the throwback uniforms drives excitement and sky-high demand for merchandise. – Read More on Biz Journals
4. RELATED READ: The Strategies, Hurdles of Building Trademark Rights in Color. Even though it is well-established that companies can amass rights in (and registrations for) single color trademarks, what is a bit less clear is what that actually entails for brands beyond the immediate use-in-commerce element. – Read More on TFL
5. Amazon must pay $46.7M in voice-assistant patent case, US jury says. The jury determined that Amazon infringed patents belonging to VB Assets, whose predecessor VoiceBox Technologies created voice-control software for companies including carmakers Toyota, Chrysler and Dodge and GPS makers TomTom and Magellan. – Read More on Reuters
6. How artificial intelligence will transform fame. Far from diluting star power, ai will make the biggest celebrities bigger than ever, by allowing them to be in all markets, in all formats, at all times. – Read More on the Economist
