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influencers aren't advertisers' agents, materiality can be common sense, & more in supplement case

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Thus, any false advertising claim would lie against Albaum, not [directly] against ChromaDex. What about statements about how a product was “designed”? Elysium said that its proprietary formulation of two ingredients was “designed” to work together synergistically.

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Gema USA, Inc. Sues Former Employee for Alleged Patent & Trademark Infringement

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

According to the complaint, Gema is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of electrostatic powder coating control units, and powder feed systems. The Design Patents are for a variety of powder guns and spray equipment. September 14, 2004. They allege to be an Integrator of Gema Products, not a Gema Distributor.

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maintaining ex-employees' voicemail/email doesn't violate Lanham Act or right of publicity

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Lanham Act false advertising: Failing to delete email and voicemail accounts is not “commercial advertising or promotion.” Omissions and inactions of this sort do not constitute either ordinary advertising or “a systematic communicative endeavor to persuade possible customers to buy the seller’s product.”

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 17 Attorneys to Principal 

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

in biochemistry and history from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2004. Vivian Cheng focuses her practice on trademark and copyright litigation and also counsels clients on a broad range of issues relating to trademark, trade dress, and copyright protection and enforcement, unfair competition, and false advertising.

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over aggressive partial dissent, 11th Cir. allows some class claims against Ford "track ready" claims to proceed

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Yet, of the five Shelby trims, the Base and Technology trims lacked “transmission and differential coolers,” a feature—originally included as standard on all Shelbys—that is designed to prevent engine overheating. 2004), abrogated in part on other grounds by Bridge v. And it rejected plaintiffs’ invocation of Klay v. Humana, 382 F.3d

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Covid-19 Act gives government more options in proceeding against supplement seller

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Since 2004, she worked as a high school teacher at a homeschool co-op in Michigan. Under Section 12 of the FTC Act, an “advertisement” is a publication that has the “tendency or capability to induce the sale of [a] product.” Parks, who had (as relevant) a Ph.D.

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Think Keyword Metatags Are Dead? They Are (Except in Court)–Reflex v. Luxy

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The court recounts the perennially problematic Brookfield case and how the 2004 Playboy v. Or, at the most, confuse Defendant’s app with Plaintiffs’ This situation is different from the websites in Network Automation and Playboy, which were clearly distinguished with ad designations. Reyes & Adler v.