Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 14, 2023

Starmark Cremation Products began in 2004 designing and marketing a small line of engineered cremation solutions. According to their website and social media pages, today Starmark manufacturers hundreds of alternative containers and rental inserts daily. Batesville is accused of patent infringement against Patent No.’s

Patent Infringement 40

Patent Infringement Social Media Patent Design 40

SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It was argued that despite several warnings by the plaintiff, and an ad interim injunction against them, the defendant was offering pirated software with remote SAP server access through a website and actively promoted its infringing material on social media. The Plaintiff has been using the infringed trademark ‘FLY HIGH’ since 2004.

Trademark 103

Trademark Social Media Registering Trademarks Copyright 103

Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The humanized skeleton figure on the left is Skully, which artist and entrepreneur Gregory Spiers first conceived while designing a T-shirt for the Lithuanian Olympic basketball team. The humanized skeleton figure on the right is Curly, a character designed for Scholastic’s popular “Goosebumps” series of books.

Copyright 145

Copyright Cinema Copying Copyright Infringement 145

IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

It varies from creating an alternate persona on a social media account to voicing an animated character in a movie. The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character. 2d 119 (2d Cir.

IP 52

IP Artwork Contracts Intellectual Property 52

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A whole industry exists of social media influencers, who create their own content touting products and receive commission on sales of those products that stem from their advertising. What about statements about how a product was “designed”?

Advertising 80

Advertising Advertising False Advertising Marketing 80

43(B)log

JULY 20, 2023

Since early 2020, Defendant Nepute and Quickwork have used several platforms, including social media, emails, and radio, to tout the purported benefits of Vitamin D and zinc and to promote Wellness Warrior supplements. ” Since 2004, she worked as a high school teacher at a homeschool co-op in Michigan.

Government 40

Government Advertising Advertising Social Media 40

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Supreme Court essentially struck down COPA in 2004 in Ashcroft v. In Arkansas, a law requiring parental consent before minors sign up for social media accounts didn’t survive intermediate scrutiny. 31, 2023) Arkansas’ law says minors need parental consent before creating social media accounts.

Social Media 130

Social Media Privacy Law Government 130

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.

Law 145

Law Social Media Privacy Government 145

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

But MAGA got one thing right: some social media owners would find the temptation to embrace partisanship irresistible. MAGA has also complained that the government improperly pressured social media to make content moderation decisions (the so-called “censorship-industrial complex”). FOLLOW ME THERE!

Social Media 102

Social Media Law Government Privacy 102