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  2. International Prototype of the Kilogram - Wikipedia

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    The Metre Convention was signed on 20 May 1875 and further formalised the metric system (a predecessor to the SI), quickly leading to the production of the IPK.The IPK is one of three cylinders made in London in 1879 by Johnson Matthey, which continued to manufacture nearly all of the national prototypes as needed until the new definition of the kilogram came into effect in 2019.

  3. Alternative approaches to redefining the kilogram - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the redefinition, the kilogram and several other SI units based on the kilogram were defined by an artificial metal object called the international prototype of the kilogram (IPK). [1] There was broad agreement that the older definition of the kilogram should be replaced.

  4. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]

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  6. Legal Briefing: Major Law Firm Abetted 'Nigerian' Scam - AOL

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    A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Major Law Firm Helps "Nigerian" Scam Defraud Americans Two Baker Hostetler partners helped defraud nine investors of over $1 million in a ...

  7. Kilogram - Wikipedia

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    The kilogram (also spelled kilogramme [1]) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), having the unit symbol kg. [1] The word "kilogram" is formed from the combination of the metric prefix kilo-(meaning one thousand) and gram; [2] it is colloquially shortened to "kilo" (plural "kilos").

  8. Scams in intellectual property - Wikipedia

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    American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) - Patent Registry Scams; Australian Patent Office - Warning!Unsolicited IP Services; Belgian Patent Office - Warning to inventors about fraudulent registration services, in (in Dutch) or (in French) (with link to a Decision of January 14, 2005 of a Belgian Appeal Court (Brussels, R.G. 2003/AR/2192 and 2003/AR/2356) (pdf) - in French)

  9. Iowa woman’s mother-in-law, 73, lost $150K to a scam. They ...

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    On a recent episode of The Ramsey Show, Kelly explained how her mother-in-law lost $150,000 to credit card fraud over a span of nine months. Shocked by the magnitude of the losses, she and her ...