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By Dan Rua, Managing Partner of Inflexion Partners -- "Florida's Venture Fund".

Upon opening my office snailmail today I was surprised to find a brochure publicizing a "Webcast Auction" liquidating AdobeAir® products. I didn't remember MasterCool or ArchCircle apps based upon AdobeAIR. As I looked inside I was even more intrigued by the opportunity to bid on intellectual property including the AdobeAir® trademark.

Of course, this auction had nothing to do with Adobe's AIR web development platform (it involved manufactured cooling products), but the brand is ironic given how aggressive Adobe's been on trademarks -- they even went after the founder of freshAIRapps.com because it was a directory of AIR applications using "air" in the domain.

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