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Dear IPProbe.Global – Blog Reader: I hope this message finds you and yours healthy and safe. With your permission, IContinue Reading

As I mentioned in my previous post (Part 1 of 2), I intended to provide the step-by-step details U.S. federalContinue Reading

I suppose, for most of us, we need to start with what is an NFT?  A.K.A. – Non-Fungible Token? AnContinue Reading

Last month legal thriller writers John Grisham and Scott Turow wrote an opinion piece published in The Hill titled, “OnlineContinue Reading

The Michigan State University, Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP), Brand Protection Professional (BPP), recently interviewed former FBI AgentContinue Reading

About five weeks ago, I published a post titled, “FBI Announces: Beware of QR Codes.” Prompted by the FBI announcement,Continue Reading

Two weeks ago, FBI Director Christopher Wray spoke at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California about countering Chinese economicContinue Reading

Ten days ago, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled: Research: Why Employees Violate Cybersecurity Policies. According to theContinue Reading

This will be a very short post because there’s nothing more to say than to take a minute to readContinue Reading

In January 2016, U.S. federal prosecutors (Department of Justice-DOJ) in Pennsylvania indicted five people for allegedly stealing trade secrets from UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKlineContinue Reading

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI just posted a 3 minute video that covers a fewContinue Reading

Dear IP Probe Blog Readers: It’s nearly the end of the year – and what another year it’s been. JustContinue Reading

It intrigued me to read the section titled, “Threat Hunting” in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Alert, “RansomwareContinue Reading

On November 22, 2021, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a notice titled, “Reminder for Critical InfrastructureContinue Reading

Dear IP Probe Readers: Recently, I had the privilege of being interviewed by the Washington, D.C. based Copyright Alliance. CreatorContinue Reading

Dear IP Probe Subscribers, Recently I published a book titled, “The World of Intellectual Property (IP) Protection and Investigations —Continue Reading

On October 28, 2021, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York indicted a Minnesota man forContinue Reading

Last month the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that an engineer in Georgia pled guilty to conspiracy to stealContinue Reading

There’s a subplot to my previous post, “Arsenal Employed by Chinese State IP Thieves Have no Moral Limits,” about theContinue Reading

Historically, state-sponsored IP thieves have used legitimate-looking domains and email addresses to trick victims into opening an email and linkContinue Reading

In July, I published a post titled, “PI License May be Required to Investigate Digital Copyright Infringement – If EvidenceContinue Reading

A few days ago I came across an article published in the August issue of a Dublin, Ireland, magazine calledContinue Reading

Dear Subscriber: Just a brief note to let you know that I have changed the blog’s name from “IP PI”Continue Reading

In a recent article in the July 24, 2021, edition of The Economist, titled, “Chinese cyber-attacks—Ctrl-alt-denounce—After failing to dissuade cyber-attacks,Continue Reading

You See, But What Do You Observe? How Observation and Inference Skills Can Aid Investigations & Analytic Work by: ChristinaContinue Reading

A recent Torrent Freak article titled, “Rightscorps Tracks Alleged Pirates Without a Private Investigators License, RCN Argues”, raises a veryContinue Reading

So, we—as IP protection and investigation professionals—swim in the polluted waters of criminals that counterfeit clothing, jewelry, toys, car brakes,Continue Reading

If you are learning about ransomware attacks in bits-and-pieces over the last few months, yesterday’s PBS article titled, “Why ransomwareContinue Reading

The attached article titled, “Why a trucking company called a lawyer minutes after a ransomware attack,” published in Freight WavesContinue Reading

Three years ago, I published a post titled, “What is 28 USC 1782? And Why Should IP Professionals Care.” InContinue Reading