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USPTO Seeks Nominations for Patent and Trademark Public Advisory Committees

by | May 22, 2024
The USPTO anticipates three upcoming vacancies for each committee. Selected members will serve a three-year term beginning Dec. 1, 2024, and can participate in the committees remotely. Nominations must be submitted online on or before July 5.
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Patented: nMetric’s Genetic Algorithm and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of May 7, 2024. 116 patents granted include: AmplifAI Solutions' use of multiple AI engines to determine a next best action for professional development of employees, ATT's configuring a federated blockchain network, Charles Machine Works' virtual path guidance system, Dell Products' cloud provisioning readiness verification, Discourse.AI's computer-based interlocutor understanding using classifying conversation segments, Futurewei Technologies' primary preview region and gaze-based driver distraction detection, Hewlett Packard's automatic notifications for expired subscriptions, and more.
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Investment Firm Acquires 50% of Xochitl, the Irving-Based Chips and Salsa Brand
by | May 21, 2024
Founded in 1995 with a salsa recipe passed down for nearly a century, Xochitl specializes in authentic, premium tortilla chips and salsas. Carlos Salinas, the company's founder, CEO, and chairman emeritus, will retain a 50% interest in Xochitl going forward.
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California Water Treatment Company Opens New Production Facility in North Texas
by | May 21, 2024
HASA is a provider of "safe, clean, and clear water treatment" for recreational, municipal, and industrial water sanitization. Its new package product manufacturing facility in Rhome is its third facility in Texas.
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The Last Word: Asset Panda’s Girish Kotte on Why Algorithms ‘Can’t Feel the Market Pulse’

by | May 21, 2024
In a LinkedIn post, he offers his "controversial take" that AI won't make humans obsolete in sectors like the stock market. Why? "Because markets are more than numbers; they're a reflection of human behaviors, fears, hopes, and irrationalities."
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Massimo Group To Expand Its Manufacturing Plant Near Dallas
by | May 21, 2024
A month after hitting the Nasdaq in a $5.85M IPO, Garland-based Massimo Group is expanding its manufacturing facility by 90,000 square feet to support both its pontoon boat production and its powersports vehicle operations.
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City of Dallas Taps Ford Pro To Help Electrify Its Fleet with EV Charging Infrastructure
by | May 21, 2024
With 5,400 vehicles now serving the community, the city of Dallas aims to electrify its fleet by 2040. Mayor Eric Johnson called the 10-year agreement with Ford Pro "a significant milestone" in making that happen.
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$2B Deal: North Texas-Based Independent Bank Group Acquired by SouthState
by | May 20, 2024
Independent Bank Group operates in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and Houston areas as well as in the Colorado Front Range. When its acquisition by Florida-based SouthState Corporation is complete, the combined company will have a projected market cap of around $8.2 billion.
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Norwegian Company To Manufacture ‘Pioneering’ Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks in North Texas

by | May 20, 2024
The new Tern brand's inaugural vehicle model RC8, a groundbreaking battery electric Class 8 tractor tailored for the U.S. market, will be manufactured at Hexagon Purus' new facility in Mesquite
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America’s Fastest-Growing City: How Celina’s Strategic Plan Aims To Spur Further Growth
by | May 20, 2024
The Dallas North Tollway is being extended to Celina, north of Frisco and Prosper. That can't come soon enough for this Collin County city, which the U.S. Census Bureau just named the fastest-growing in the U.S. Behind the meteoric growth—and a dizzying list of new developments—is a plan that's guiding it all.
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The Last Word: Sow Good’s Ira Goldfarb on Ringing the Opening Bell at Nasdaq
by | May 20, 2024
Decades ago, Goldfarb's father rang the opening bell for his G-III Apparel Group, an American clothing company that designs, manufactures, markets, and sells women's and men's apparel with a global portfolio of licensed, owned, and private label brands. Today, the executive chairman of Irving-based Sow Good carried on the family tradition by ringing the opening bell at Nasdaq in New York's Times Square with Co-Founder and CEO Claudia Goldfarb and their team.
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Crown Laboratories Is Giving Skincare a Makeover and Replacing Hype With Hope
Dallas-based scientist Thomas Hitchcock, the mastermind behind Crown Laboratories' newest product called BIOJUVE, leverages a common skin microbe to optimize skin health. One local woman, after experiencing the products benefits firsthand in a clinical trial, says she "needs this in her life."

Hitchcock's innovative work harnessing the power of the skin microbiome has established a new category of skin therapeutics.
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Norton Rose Fulbright Adds 3 Lawyers to Intellectual Property Practice

by | May 17, 2024
Rhiannon D’Agostin and Adam Rehm have joined Norton Rose Fulbright as partners, and counsel Zack Cleary has joined the global law firm's IP practice as well.
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Fort Worth’s US Rail & Logistics Appoints SVP of Operations
by | May 17, 2024
The company said Andy Klinck has a proven track record in logistics and supply chain management and brings a wealth of experience and strategic insight to his new role.
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North Texas’ MTX Group Appoints Chief Transformation Officer
by | May 17, 2024
As a pioneer Salesforce Certified Technical Architect since 2011, Nate Shilling shares a longstanding connection with the founding members of MTX Group.
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Selerix Appoints New CEO To Drive Growth
by | May 17, 2024
Tim Pratte succeeds Selerix co-founder and president of 22 years, Lyle Griffin, who will continue to serve on the company's board of directors.
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