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Trademarks and Other Hazards: “About Jenga” (Part 2)

By Guest Author Leslie Scott [Leslie Scott, author of “About Jenga: The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game that Became a Household Name”, continues her series with a discussion of a sometimes difficult but often unavoidable process that many entrepreneurs face: registering trademarks.] Following Jenga, although most of the games I produced were published through

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Infineon (Part 4): Wireless Strategy And Outlook

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala Infineon is in an enviable position with four of the top five handset makers as customers. Déjà vu? You recently heard it in this space in the context of ST-Ericsson. However, in addition to the above, Infineon also supplies to Apple and RIM – the two smartphone makers on

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Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 4)

SM: I don’t have any disagreement that the human condition is universal. What is it that these other cultures can learn from the craft that Hollywood seems to have mastered to build their own film industries? Bollywood is unpalatable for anyone outside of a segment of the Indian consumer base. RM: Let me mention two

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Leslie Scott

Leslie Scott is the creator of the blockbuster game Jenga, and the co-founder of Oxford Games Ltd. Born and raised in Africa, and educated in Kenya, Sierra Leone and England, Scott is now one of the world’s few professional game designers, having devised and published almost forty games in a career spanning twenty six years.

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Copyright and Cultural Heritage: “About Jenga” (Part 1)

By Guest Author Leslie Scott [Many readers may have been surprised to learn in my recent interview with Henk Rogers that the rights to Tetris were originally owned by the Russian Ministry of Software and that it was no easy task for Rogers to obtain them. But of course all games, whether high-tech, low-tech or

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Infineon (Part 3): Holes In Wireless Portfolio

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala In the previous post, we looked at Infineon’s strengths in wireless. However, Infineon’s portfolio is still incomplete in the area of connectivity solutions, which are playing a major role in the convergence trend.

Hollywood’s Content Crisis: Robert McKee (Part 3)

SM: The film industry aspirations of the rest of the world, for example Europe, India, and China, are cultures that have long histories and great stories. RM: So does America. I think you have cultural bias. You think that the cultures of India and China are older than American culture. I don’t agree. American culture

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