🎈Chewing gum
📰 In 1870, Thomas Adams was experimenting with chicle, the sap from a South American tree, as a substitute for rubber. After mounting failures, a piece into his mouth. He liked it!
ℹ️ Source: https://www.rd.com/funny-stuff/10-accidental-discoveries-put-to-good-use/
🍽️ Microwave oven
📰 With the end of World War II in 1946, the Raytheon engineer was looking for other uses for the magnetron, which generated the microwaves for radar systems. While Percy Spencer was standing next to the device one day, a chocolate bar in his pocket melted. It worked even better
📰 The Israel government used compulsory licensing, a legal tool, to sidestep the pharmaceutical company Abbvie’s patents for its HIV combination drug lopinavir/ritonavir—at the time believed to be effective in treating COVID-19
📂ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, had recently used data stored on a blockchain ledger to prove stealing of one of the videos originally uploaded on TikTok, by Baidu. This first-ever accepted blockchain evidence in history proved Baidu guilty of copyright infringement.
📰 In many jurisdictions like the US, a generic term, coupled with ‘Company’ or ‘.com,’ can never be a trademark. Previous marks including “HOTELS.COM” and “LAWYERS.COM” had been rejected.
✒️ BOOKING.COM presented a survey report proving that
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