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14, 2022) Once in a blue moon, a falseadvertising-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.
Fifteen years ago, courts generally avoided categorical pronouncements about the legitimacy of competitive keyword advertising. The message from the Second Circuit is plain: stop bringing competitive keyword advertising cases. This ruling doesn’t address the scenario where the advertiser’s ad copy references the trademark.
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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.
These various brands have posted laudatory posts congratulating her for this achievement, while at the same time utilizing her image and Olympic win for their own commercial own use by using it in the form of an advertisement. In 2011, in the landmark case of Titan Industries Ltd. Personality Rights: Publicity or Privacy?
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They are: the Unfair Competition Law (UCL); the FalseAdvertising Law (FAL); and the Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA). While they often cover the same conduct in falseadvertising cases and are cumulative of each other, they have differences. 4th 310, 327 (2011). Superior Court, 9 Cal.5th 5th 642, 651 (2020).
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were valid and infringed, but the latter wasn’t counterfeited; SMRI’s dilution victory was vacated, but not its victories on deceptive trade practices, ACPA, falseadvertising, and unfair competition. SMRI ultimately sent one C&D in August 2006, and filed suit in June 2011. Here the court considers acquiescence and laches.
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The Court, after assessing the matter, partially denied RealReal’s motion to dismiss the First Amended complaint, as it was found that: 1) Chanel’s allegation that RealReal marketed and sold counterfeit Chanel products was adequate; 2) RealReal’s advertising regarding the authenticity of the products it sells was false.
Vivian Cheng focuses her practice on trademark and copyright litigation and also counsels clients on a broad range of issues relating to trademark, trade dress, and copyright protection and enforcement, unfair competition, and falseadvertising. in biology and society from Cornell University in 2011. Louis in 2011, and his B.S.
Premier sold Joint Juice for treating/preventing joint pain; a jury found it liable to a consumer class for falseadvertising under NY law; and the district court awarded statutory damages to the class, but cut them by over 90%. When Premier considered running its own study, its president wrote: “if poor—don’t publish.”
10] It concluded that a case under the Lanham Act is “exceptional” if the losing party was the plaintiff and was guilty of abuse of process in suing, or if the losing party was the defendant and had no defense yet persisted in the trademark infringement or falseadvertising for which it was being sued, in order to impose costs on its opponent. [11].
10-CV-1662, 2011 WL 13224118 (E.D. July 22, 2011)). Bayer AG, No. 17-CV-647, 2017 WL 3168525 (N.D. July 26, 2017), vacated and remanded, 742 F. App’x 325 (9th Cir. 2018); and Howard v. Bayer Corp., But, under Mantikas v. Kellogg Co., 3d 633 (2d Cir.
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Netscape and 2011 Network Automation cases modified it. Plus, does this mean that rival apps can’t advertise themselves as rivals or engage in comparative advertising because the app stores aren’t properly labeling the ads, even if the advertisers are engaging in nominative use? HEY APP STORES–FIX THIS.
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