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Ensuring Antitrust in Digital Markets

Olartemoure Blog

It is a challenge for the institutional framework, enforcement agencies, and courts to effectively develop their missions, because, even with the current resources, some markets remain unexplored or wrongly understood. b) The world’s largest social media, intervened in a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission and 48 U.S.

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[Part II] Assessing DHC’s Finding on Piercing the Corporate Veil and Damages in the Amazon Case

SpicyIP

Ali Shayif (2009) ( paywalled ) which has been cited numerous times by the Supreme Court and numerous High Courts of India ( here and here ). Social media intermediaries are directly connected to the aspect of freedom of speech and expression, whose over-regulation can stifle the same.

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3D Marks Remain a Dubious Subject at the EUIPO

IPilogue

based proprietor of the egg-shaped lip balms since 2009 , has failed in its attempt to have the shape of its lip balm registered as a three-dimensional (“3D”) trademark before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (“EUIPO”). Firstly, since being launched in 2009, the egg-shaped balm has come to be associated with EOS.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

However, those arguments were more theoretical than empirical; there weren’t a lot of high-profile examples of a mass-market consumer service deploying this strategy. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. Battles over politician-operated social media accounts. StopTheSADScheme.

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Examples of Text and Data Mining Research Using Copyrighted Materials

Kluwer Copyright Blog

A series of recent amendments to copyright law, including in the EU Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive (Art. Other TDM projects have examined social media and other online sources to track and explain COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy, and to identify High-Risk COVID-19 patients.

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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction In today’s digital economy, trademarks play an important role in developing a brand’s identity, establishing customer trust, and assuring market competition. The accessibility of Internet markets and the ease with which information may be shared have given rise to new opportunities for trademark infringement.

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2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 2 (Trademarks)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

A title of a social media page—like that of a book or a movie— is speech subject to First Amendment protections… Plaintiffs did not use the term “Los Lunas School” in connection with the sale of goods or services, but instead in connection with the expression of their views about the District. Aliign Activation Wear LLC v.

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