No. 1,000: The more things change…
Welcome, intrepid innovators, to Wednesday and a landmark edition of your favorite innovation newsletter, and to a momentous day in Innovate Long Island history. It’s mindboggling that more than…
Allison Singh
No. 928: In which children lead, pay back their parents and eat loads of fudge (and the price is wrong for LI)
Holiday in (express): Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we rush our way through the week before Thanksgiving week (and its blessed four-day blow, at least for most American…
Trump 2 could supercharge intellectual property law
By ALLISON SINGH // Intellectual property wasn’t a big subject in 2024 campaign speeches or political slogans, but it will play a big role in the new Presidential administration. This…
No. 914: Peaceful resistance, angelic guarding and coastal reinforcement, with real(ish) emergency responses
See? Saw: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as October rises and this latest week of busy socioeconomic innovation dips into its latter half. We’re teeter-tottering over the hump with another…
Patent law must think hard about ‘traditional knowledge’
By ALLISON SINGH // When it comes to stealing from Long Island’s indigenous people, much of the focus has been on land – much less on the theft of intangibles…
No. 900: Innovation, dressed to the nines
900 number: Nine hundred? Good golly, that’s a big number. Welcome, intrepid innovators, to Issue No. 900 of the Innovate Long Island Newsletter – which is not actually Issue…
AI needs some history lessons, for posterity’s sake
By ALLISON SINGH // As a lawyer, I’m not deeply concerned about artificial intelligence. But as someone who cares about history – especially Long Island history – I’m very concerned….
No. 885: On arcade giants, goths and the Wright bros, with LIRR access (and clean water?) for everyone
Going to the chapel: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we race through May’s penultimate workweek and straight toward Memorial Day – and the unofficial start of Summer 2024….
Full marks for Nassau on controversial trademark play
By ALLISON SINGH // Why would a county trademark a slogan? Some have been asking that question since Nassau County filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark…
No. 851: Old money, new lifeforms and more resilient LI coastlines, with plenty of nice things to say about you
Soggy slog: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we splash through the midpoint of another wet winter workweek. Fortunately, this damp precipitation situation can’t stop intrepid innovators like you…
Battles brewing over biz-formation transparency laws
By ALLISON SINGH // Form a corporate entity without naming actual owners? Sure! Just file paperwork with the state, pay a fee and you’ve got yourself a corporation, no questions…
No. 833: First fellowships, Bobby the Brain’s second chances and the legendary Al Arbour’s ‘drive for five’
Candyland: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and welcome to November, as we bundle up for 2023’s penultimate month and gear up for the second half of this latest autumnal…
Tanking it, to give early-stage entrepreneurs a chance
By ALLISON SINGH // After years of watching “Shark Tank,” I’m taking a shot at sharkdom next week, as a judge for the Stony Brook University College of Business pitch-fest…
No. 816: Good grief … COVID, monsters, A-bombs AND the end of summer?!?
Who’s counting: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and not just any Wednesday but the “last” Wednesday of the Summer of 2023 (there are technically three more before Fall, but…
It’s innovators vs. sham spirits in the war of the rosés
By ALLISON SINGH // When consumers hear “counterfeiting,” they think of fake Rolex watches or Louis Vuitton handbags – not phony merlot. But sales of counterfeit wines and spirits skyrocketed…