The IPKat

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Stone had began marketing an online ‘metaphysical education’ course under the brand ‘ARCHANGEL ALCHEMY’ in or around July 2019, with the course first starting on 23 September 2019 and running until 21 September 2020.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

23, 2024) Plaintiffs alleged that defendants conspired to inflate the US News ranking of USC Rossier School of Education by submitting inaccurate or incomplete data to US News and market the resulting ranking to the public. News and World Report’s 2010 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools.”

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2022

Indeed, safety concerns about decorative lenses were newsworthy in 2010, when Lady Gaga appeared in her Bad Romance video with “ cartoonishly large eyes.” ” But the agency just announced a case against a more prominent player in the industry, Vision Path , which markets Hubble contact lenses.

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Garrigues Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Yet all is not lost for those companies that did not incorporate ESG criteria from their very start, as they still have time to adapt to the new market demands, to set reasonable goals related with improving the environment and society and to accompany these goals with a persuasive story that helps boost their corporate reputations.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Delhi HC seems to be on a spree, granting interim injunctions in cases concerning trademark disparagement (see here and here ), with posts by social media influencers and content creators now also under the radar of such actions. Note for the readers: The matter is listed for today before the Delhi High Court. ]

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 6, 2021

American Girl applied for trademarks on a space-themed doll named Luciana Vega, which it began marketing in 2018 as its “Girl of the Year” doll. Walkowicz allegedly received multiple emails and social-media messages commenting on the similarities between Walkowicz and Luciana and inquiries about whether they had endorsed the doll.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 13, 2024

Mountain Valley Springs, the plaintiff, has been marketing its products under the trademark (TM) “Forest Essentials” since 2000, claiming extensive reputation and goodwill, especially for their Ayurvedic products, including a baby care segment launched in 2006. Case Overview: What were The Parties even Fighting for? Ultimately, J.

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IP Whiteboard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

16 February 2010. g) placing apparent weight on evidence of confusion from social media posts and no weight on the absence of evidence of actual confusion. Class 30: All products in class 30 including, hamburger sandwiches and cheeseburger sandwiches, hot coffee for consumption on or off the premises. IN-N-OUT BURGER.

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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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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. More typically, two works aren’t market substitutes, which means that determining whether a secondary use is justified is more difficult.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Around 2010, some studios started enforcing, e.g., Twentieth Century Fox sued over copying of plot of Phone Booth and was successful. But there was pressure from the market: this is a business trying to make money. One company does the market research and the other follows. It’s like using quotes.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The container market changed in 1986 when McDonald’s introduced their plastic Happy Meal containers. While these plastic containers could not hold as much candy as a pillow case, they were the pièce de résistance of containers – a review of social media hashtags reveals that these containers are still en vogue.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

While these search terms are clearly not acceptable, it’s also obvious that these phrases could describe completely legal videos as part of exaggerated or fantastical marketing. Plaintiffs have not alleged facts demonstrating how Salesforce’s marketing advice and/or products were essential to the ads that trafficked Plaintiffs.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Applicant’s POTIFY platform is designed to permit legal marijuana dispensaries to market and sell their products, including via mobile applications and websites. 96 USPQ2d 1479, 1497 (TTAB 2010). . (“Applicant”) develops sales systems, telemedicine systems and enterprise resource planning systems. Opposer’s 23.3

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

On March 13, the Delhi High Court granted an ex parte interim injunction in Markets and Markets Research Pvt. Meticulous Market Research Pvt. Assessing the provision, the Court has set aside the in rem (on all the parties) application of the 2010 order and clarified that it will be applied on the parties to the dispute only.

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Working with Corsearch, AstraZeneca’s Global Security Team was able to quickly establish strong relationships with both marketplaces and social media, with a focus on swiftly removing scam posts that purported to sell vaccines. Soon after, AstraZeneca encountered fake websites offering vaccines directly to consumers.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

.” That scholarship focused on fictional characters and why they come to mean so much to readers: Tarzan, Betty Boop, Sam Spade, Scarlett O’Hara, James Bond, Harry Potter, Holden Caulfield, Sherlock Holmes: the mere names of these once-litigated figures evoke the market power and popular significance characters can possess.

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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 29, 2022

MAGA state legislatures around the country have responded to his dog-whistles with laws such as the Texas and Florida social media censorship bills. This ruling rolls up three lawsuits against social media services for allegedly materially supporting terrorists (the Gonzalez, Clayborn, and Taamneh cases). ” UGH.

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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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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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