An Ottawa fintech firm that provides mobile financial services to “unbanked” customers in Africa, Asia and the Middle East says it’s poised to make a major push into the Latin American and Caribbean markets under the leadership of a new CEO.
Telepin Software’s secure digital wallets allow users to transfer money, buy merchandise and pay bills even if they don’t have a bank account. The company says more than 256 million customers use the platform, which is deployed at more than one million merchants.
Founded in 2006, Telepin is already a major player in Africa and Asia, where mobile phone penetration rates are often well above 100 per cent while many financial transactions are still carried out in cash. In 2017, the firm was acquired by Toronto-based Constellation Software, a publicly traded company with annual revenues of more than $3 billion.
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December 20, 2020
Law Street Media’s November 29 article examining patent litigation analytics focused on the district court system, just one part of a complex system of patent litigation. This article examines a similar premise; a deep dive into the companies that have had their patents challenged the most in recent years before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, using Docket Alarm’s cutting-edge PTAB analytics.
As 2020 comes to a close, it is apparent that total filings at PTAB have remained steady despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of
inter partes review (IPR) filings from January 1, 2019, to October 31, 2020 (the same time period as the prior article), reveals a consistent pattern. A dip in March and April 2020 was likely caused by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but other fluctuations in the above time period are more dramatic. In fact, by May 2020 there was an uptick in filings, which could suggest a bounce back from the delays of