So, too, is the risk of overlap: a recent study by M-CAM, a consultancy which studies intellectual property, found that more than 30% of patents make duplicate claims, raising questions about their validity.

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"Up until now, patent donations have been a cash cow because the IRS turned an inadvertent blind eye, " says David Martin , chief executive of M-CAM , the Virginia-based company the IRS hired to help detect abusive tax strategies relating to patents.

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Packing an all-new black and white-only Mysterium-X sensor, the new cinema cam follows in the footsteps of the Leica M Monochrom still shooter, right down to a similar moniker.

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