LexBlog IP

APRIL 14, 2022

In 2004, 19-year-old college sophomore Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University to create a company that would change the world. Employees were discouraged from communicating with each other about their work and were advised not to share the company’s name on social media platforms like LinkedIn. Theranos, Inc.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

” Across social media platforms, taco enthusiasts criticized what they perceived as an act of cultural appropriation by Taquería (owned by Taquería Worldwide “TW”). Presumably, when it was granted in 2004, the mark was not considered generic or descriptive.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Trademark Infringement in the Digital Landscape The internet and digital technology have enabled new types of trademark infringement through channels such as cybersquatting, keyword advertising, and social media misuse, making it more challenging for companies to safeguard their intellectual property rights. Sifynet Solutions Pvt.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

Anyway, Bell goes around suing unauthorized users of the passage, mostly public schools or nonprofits that publish the passage on social media. Anyway, the complaint alleged that widespread use of the passage on social media could reduce “the incentive to purchase Winning Isn’t Normal or related merchandise.” NXIVM Corp.

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The IPKat

APRIL 3, 2023

The Act introduces a new vista in Nigerian copyright law as it repeals the Copyright Act 2004. The reform process is now complete with the recent assent to the Bill, as the Copyright Act 2022, by the Nigerian President. How can libraries in Nigeria benefit from the Copyright Act 2022?

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The picture of a boy, Yusuf Alabi with his arms wide open and standing in front of the campaign convoy of one of the popular presidential candidates, Peter Obi of the Labour Party , went viral across social media. The photographer, Esther Umoh called this person out for copyright infringement on social media platform “X”.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 26, 2023

It began selling its uniquely decorative “weathered-teak” furniture to exclusive retailers in 2004. In 2016, Trendily’s owner copied, manufactured, and sold identical JSC‑designed pieces.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The plaintiff has been using its ‘Fly High’ mark since 2004 for managing and operating training institutes for people wishing to join the aviation, hospitality, travel and customer care management industries. The case, Frankfinn Aviation Services Private Ltd. Download Order/Judgement.

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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.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

2004)) The Court compares the parties’ marks in the context of what happens in the marketplace, not necessarily by looking at the two marks side by side. Showing how third parties refer to your mark on social media, in articles, or in communications. Sometimes this issues arise in the context of competing restaurants.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In 2004, the Ninth Circuit eviscerated it (in the Rossi case) by requiring plaintiffs to show that senders subjectively believed their takedown notices were abusive. Diebold from 2004, which led to a $125k damages award. As I’ve blogged many, many times on this blog (see list below), 512(f) has been a complete failure.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 17, 2021

Nevertheless, almost immediately after the sketch aired on the East Coast, a number of Muppets fans began to weigh in on social media, wondering if they had just seen an authorized (albeit unconventional) appearance by Kermit and Co. Kermit the Frog and Robert De Niro on SNL (2004). Jason Segel and the Muppets on SNL (2011).

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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.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

” In 2004, video game publisher Capcom contacted MKR, the film’s producer, to inquire about about obtaining a license to use elements from the film in one of its games. Let me know in the comments below or on any social media platform you want, as long as it’s Twitter , Instagram , LinkedIn or Facebook.

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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.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

It varies from creating an alternate persona on a social media account to voicing an animated character in a movie. Introduction In the 21 st century, a virtual identity is not a new concept. The idea of the Virtual Individual was explored and popularised by the game Second Life. 10] Nichols v Universal Pictures Co, 45 F.2d

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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. But the court held that “the FAQs as a whole do not qualify or dispel the notion that Brenner was the one who discovered NR and that he did so in 2004.”

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While most complaints to the CNT concern newly incorporated companies, Lidl Logistics Ltd began life in 2004, before section 69 of the Companies Act 2006, which brought in the jurisdiction of the CNT, came into force.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 12, 2022

e-personation case (an edge case from a different era), and the decade-old social media e-discovery cases (mainstream CivPro by now). Taylor about true threats on social media. The Florida and Texas social media censorship laws and the associated court challenges. Social Media. eBay (2d Cir.).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

I did not add coverage of the Florida social media censorship law or NetChoice v. Then, when the Second Circuit vacated the opinion, I ripped it out of the book. I decided that the revised opinion , though still a good result, had gotten so garbled that it wasn’t worth adding back. Network Automation v. eBay (2d Cir.).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

The court says this is a fact question to address at trial: “the parties should provide evidence of whether and in what way the internet and social media platforms have altered the community standard.” For example, Facebook was launched in 2004, YouTube in 2005, Twitter in 2006, Instagram in 2010, and Snapchat in 2011).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2024

ACLU and 2004 Ashcroft v. Also, Texas has tried to functionally eliminate services’ discretion to make removal decisions via its social media censorship law–and the Fifth Circuit upheld that law too. ACLU opinions, both of which dealt with the Internet.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The dispute arose over a 2004 agreement between Versata and Ford for software that Versata developed to manage how components in Ford vehicles would be configured during assembly. However, the issue of what to do with social media that may include customer information or other potentially proprietary information can come up from time to time.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2025

I didn’t use much social media 20 years ago – and still only primarily use 1 (BlueSky) for personal. I follow (via social and blogs) more independent journalists than I did then – I may not have followed any journalists in 2004. Fifth, since 2005, social media has waxed and waned in my information diet.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2023

03-1770, 2004 WL 602711 (4th Cir. 24, 2004); Kathleen R. Paxton ruling , saying “in NetChoice II the [Texas] legislature explicitly defined social media platforms as common carriers, whereas the California legislature has not.” 02-1964, 2002 WL 31844907, at *4–5 (E.D. 17, 2002); Noah v. AOL Time Warner, Inc.,

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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.

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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.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

On the heels of the mandatory editorial transparency provisions in Florida and Texas’ social media censorship laws, the California legislature thought it could one-up those states by passing a law with at least 161 different disclosure requirements. The opinion upheld every aspect of Texas’ social media censorship law.

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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!

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