Selvam & Selvam Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Further, they recorded their dissatisfaction with the defendant’s use of the mark ‘Fly High’ as hashtags on popular social media websites to promote their services. vs Gujarat Co-Operative Milk marketing federation LTD. & that is not capable of acting as a source identifier. Download Order/Judgement.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Providing the evidence of its trademark registrations, extensive marketing campaigns and distinctive red-and-white trade dress, it claimed to have garnered significant consumer recognition, including celebrity endorsements. The plaintiff, which has used the “OROFER” mark since 1996, claimed significant market presence.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 17, 2021

Facts in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs: Each of the plaintiffs has a significant number of followers on various social media platforms, ranging from greater than ten thousand to several million, and most are “considered social media influencers.” Plaintiffs didn’t show sufficient evidence of recognition.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 20, 2022

We hope this means the FTC will take into account when a post targets, say, the gaming community with its own language or Gen Zers who have grown up with social media. ” Determining what requires a typicality disclosure and how to make one has long vexed marketers, and this proposal only complicates that exercise further.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 10, 2021

The Board then applied the CAFC's Converse analysis to applicant's evidence: use of the proposed mark since 2007, approximately 250,000 units sold for $3M in revenue, $25,000 spent for advertising, promotion of mark on social media an on its website, and a ranking for several years as the best-selling and highest-rated pellet on Amazon.com.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today, the prevalence of such activities can be seen in online rummy advertisements on social media and the 2013 IPL match-fixing scandal. Sikkim stands as the only state with an online gambling statute, the Sikkim Online Gaming (Regulation) Act, 2008, and the Sikkim Online Gaming Rules, 2009.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 16, 2023

POI Social Media Pvt. However, the court opined that the plaintiff’s movie was released in 2009 and “can be said to have faded in the public memory” whereas the defendant’s movie is generating much more publicity than the plaintiff’s movie and thus there does not appear to be any likelihood of confusion.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The court summarizes the allegations: Plaintiffs John Doe #1 and John Doe #2 allege that when they were thirteen years old they were solicited and recruited for sex trafficking and manipulated into providing to a third-party sex trafficker pornographic videos (“the Videos”) of themselves through the social media platform Snapchat.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

It’s a simple question: can a government official block a constituent on social media? Reed created the @PresReed Twitter account in 2009 and used it in a variety of official ways. The court says yes: not every social media account operated by a public official is a government account. Conclusion.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2021

On social media: "Were U planning on telling UR customers" [to switch before they lose service]? Diecast Marketing Innovations, LLC (In re Collecting Concepts), 2000 Bankr. 2009), “in which the posting of a sign that said, ‘Brad Collier owes me $943.23. Cited: Collier v. Hill (In re Collier), 410 B.R. 464 (Bankr.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Twitter’s TOS, which Trump agreed to in 2009 when he created his account, contains a mandatory venue clause. Twitter appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Now Twitter has done the same. (A A reminder that Trump’s legal filings routinely make brain-meltingly stupid arguments. This one is no exception).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 9, 2022

Yet another COVID denier lawsuit over getting kicked off social media. However, trying to turn all social media into government actors is definitely not the solution to jawboning. The court summarizes the assertions: Plaintiffs all created their respective Twitter accounts sometime between 2009 and 2014.

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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

Two recent key developments were the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act. 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.

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