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Ian Drew

Los Angeles
As seen in: Variety, Billboard, TODAY, Us Weekly, Boston Herald, Lexology, Mondaq, Edible South Florida, Bylines Cymru
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The great McDonald's ice cream machine meltdown: copyright, control, and the fight for repair rights

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By Linda Xu, Ian Drew
| Lexology Verified
You walk into McDonald’s, eager for a soft-serve cone or a McFlurry®, only to be met with those dreaded words: “Sorry, the ice cream machine’s down”. It’s a relatable moment we have all experienced. Yet, what seems like a minor inconvenience highlights a larger, more complex issue involving intellectual property (IP), monopolistic control, and the emerging right-to-repair movement.
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The price of change: new official fees will transform trade mark oppositions practice in Australia

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By Linda Xu, Nicholas Butera, Ian Drew
| Lexology Verified
As reported here, IP Australia has announced official fee changes that will take effect from 1 October 2024, which relevantly affect trade mark opposition fees. One key change is a new fee structure for filing of Statements of Grounds and Particulars (SGP), which marks the second significant change to Australian trade mark opposition practice over the course of the last 18 months.
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Beer Today, Gone Tomorrow?

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By Ian Drew
| Edible South Florida Verified
With a staggering 9,500+ craft breweries operating in the United States, and more than 550 new openings in 2023, it might seem like craft beer is still crushing it. I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but there were also over 200 brewery closings and 2023 is forecast to have the slowest opening rate of new breweries in over a decade. In the U.S., beer volume is relatively flat or trending slightly negative.
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