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Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? Some Perspectives

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We are pleased to bring to you a guest post by Roshan Santhalia ruminating on the question of whether a cease-and-desist notice before instituting a trademark or copyright infringement suit should be issued or not. Hons) LLB from NALSAR, Hyderabad in 2011 and MSc from Oxford, UK in 2012. He completed his B.A.

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Insights from the Global Online Thesis Topic Meetings

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She received a cease-and-desist notice from the photographer Michael Halsband, directing her to destroy the artwork. Guadamuz was a critic of NFTs since 2011 and only got involved in their trade to understand what the fuss was all about. He authored “ The Treachery of Images: Non-fungible Tokens and Copyright ”.

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Overreaching and delay lead to defeat of TM owner's claims

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SMRI ultimately sent one C&D in August 2006, and filed suit in June 2011. The laches defense is not available “when the defendant knew that the plaintiff objected to the use of the mark,” as “[a]ny acts after receiving a cease and desist letter are at the defendant’s own risk.” apart from the mark as shown.”

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

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2011) (citing to ProCD in rejecting preemption in the context of a Desny claim). And to characterize zero-click online terms of use that are imposed by cease-and-desist letter as enforceable contracts is horrible policy and bad law. There is certainly an argument that the Ninth Circuit has adopted the logic of ProCD v.

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The Long Arm of APEX: When (and Where) does Amazon’s Private Enforcement Mechanism Create Personal Jurisdictional

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The Federal Circuit panel in SnapRays had distinguished cases involving ordinary cease-and-desist letters, reasoning that “LDG did more than send a cease and desist letter” by initiating the APEX process that would automatically remove SnapRays’ listings absent action by SnapRays. Wok & Pan, Ind.,

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Game On! Bright Data Scores Major Victory in Web-Scraping Dispute with Meta (Guest Blog Post)

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4, 2011)) (emphasis in original). precedent, could Meta just amend its terms, send another cease-and-desist, and revisit this, or does this case repudiate that whole line of precedent? The 2009 Facebook Terms included the following clause: “accessing or using our website. signif[ies] that you. agree to be bound by these Terms.

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Spicy IP Weekly Review (November 16- November 21)

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The court relied on the studies conducted by Lumen and “large volumes” of cease and desist complaints to prima facie establish that the App is a rogue website and deserves to be blocked as a whole. Delhi High Court granted an interim injunction to the Plaintiff, blocking ‘Pikashow’ App from being accessed in any matter whatsoever.

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