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Technology & Marketing Law Blog
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Fifteen years ago, courts generally avoided categorical pronouncements about the legitimacy of competitive keyword advertising. Whatever legal ambiguity might have existed then has been decisively resolved, at least with respect to competitive keyword ads that don’t use the trademark in the ad copy. Google (4th Circuit).
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
It’s perhaps fitting that sites that relied heavily on copying are being copied themselves; the original operators can hardly complain about that. In 2011 the file-hosting service was added to Hollywood’s list of notorious pirate sites and subsequently featured in the U.S. Putlocker.com.
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Technology & Marketing Law Blog
AUGUST 30, 2023
This is a competitive keyword advertising lawsuit. This is fine, but it deviates from courts’ efforts over the years to come up with multi-factor variations specific to keyword advertising. ” But the advertiser was engaging in comparative advertising, which I think also strongly serves the public interest.
43(B)log
JANUARY 19, 2022
14, 2022) Once in a blue moon, a false advertising-based antitrust claim survives a motion to dismiss in a circuit that imposes a list of excessive requirements on such claims. Consumers and advertisers adequately alleged that Facebook has monopoly power in social network/social media (consumers) and social advertising markets.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 24, 2023
In the years following its initial release in 2011, Minecraft captured a truly massive audience. With hundreds of millions of copies sold, it’s also the best-selling video game in history, a reign that looks set to continue. However, that doesn’t completely stop the problem.
The IP Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Johnson Enterprises bought a copy of the P&P game, sent samples to a Chinese manufacturer, and began selling an almost identical version of P&P’s game that it called “Tailgating Pros White Connect 4” in October 2017. The Ninth Circuit first recognized that “proof of copying strongly supports an inference of secondary meaning.”
Copyright Lately
OCTOBER 25, 2021
As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. This prompted a lawsuit by Don Post Studios, which asserted that the Cinema Secrets mask was a copy of its own mask.
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