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Best of 2010: Forget breakfast — eBay eats Tiffany’s lunch

Likelihood of Confusion

The post Best of 2010: Forget breakfast — eBay eats Tiffany’s lunch appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. The Second Circuit, unsurprisingly according to most commentators, has affirmed the decision of the Southern District of New York refusing to find eBay liable for contributory trademark infrintgement in the.

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Don’t Offend My Oats: Generic Disparagement, Market Leadership, and Marico Limited vs. Alpino Health Foods

SpicyIP

Facts: The story has it that Marico has been in the oats business since 2010 and sells it under the name “Saffola Oats,” but it has many flavors. Anyway, let’s cut to the meat of the matter: generic disparagement —a curious creature of trademark law that, if misunderstood, can easily curb the creative freedoms of advertising.

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antitrust claim against Suboxone, including false advertising, survives summary judgment

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22, 2022) The court here allows an antitrust claim to proceed based in part on allegedly false/misleading statements because they form part of the alleged anticompetitive product-hopping scheme and because the unique characteristics of the drug market make market-based responses to false advertising difficult.

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3 Count: French Anti-Pirates

Plagiarism Today

The new agency has worked to tackle piracy by reducing the appearance of such resources in search engines and targeting advertising on such sites. Peters served as the Register of Copyrights from 1994 through 2010, a tenure that made her the second-longest running Register in history.

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Harpic v. Domex:Product disparagement or nominative fair use?

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Advertising is an important strategy for a company to sell its products to the customer. Advertising generated awareness about a particular product in among the masses and the reaction of the masses decides the fate of the product. To increase their sales, often companies indulge themselves in comparative advertising.

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Good News: I Saved a Lot of Money on Litigation

Likelihood of Confusion

Originally posted 2010-10-12 18:56:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Looking for the Geico v. Google decision? Here it is. More to come… UPDATE: I didn’t exactly mean more litigation — but I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.

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US News rating was mere opinion except as to school that intentionally submitted bad information to it

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From the 2009 rankings to the 2010 rankings, USC Rossier’s reported acceptance rate dropped 40 percentage points (from 50.7% USC allegedly orchestrated this scheme through its submission of false/incomplete data, and then advertised the resulting rankings knowing that they were misleading.