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In 1950, Disney released a seven-minute cartoon called Motor Mania.

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While traveling in Bali, we visited a coffee plantation.

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Most people don't think of trademark filings as a way to study emerging technology.

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Every once in a while, a sentence makes me stop reading.

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A few years ago, someone asked me how to see Prague.

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Most of us knew the shortcut.

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Last week a construction crew accidentally cut the fiber optic cable serving our neighborhood.

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AI is discovering drugs.

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One December afternoon, I spent hours studying women's underwear in a church lobby.

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When I was growing up, clothing answered a question before anyone asked it.

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According to Doc Brown in Back to the Future, the greatest invention in the history of time travel began in a bathroom.

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Three men hurried toward us carrying large coils of climbing rope.

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Yesterday I met with a new trademark client.

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For the past several months, I have been writing with an unusual collaborator.

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I still have my original Star Wars medical droid 2-1B action figure.

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Many years ago, someone explained the difference between privacy and security using a simple story about a house, a set of curtains, and a wall. I have long since forgotten who deserves the credit. I wish I hadn't, becau...

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As children, we were taught to fear the wolf.

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Imagine standing before the golden mask of Tutankhamun.

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For most of human history, identity was inseparable from biology.

","url":"https://thelawbster.com/f/digital-personas-the-next-legal-asset-class","title":"Digital Personas: The Next Legal Asset Class?","summary":"For most of human history, identity was inseparable from biology.","date_modified":"2026-06-25T03:48:57Z"}]}