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2, 2021) Rex sued Zillow and the National Association of Realtors for antitrust and falseadvertising violations. Surprisingly, the antitrust claims survive, as do falseadvertising claims agains Zillow. Lanham Act claim: Was this commercial advertising or promotion? C21-312 TSZ, 2021 WL 3930694 (W.D.
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.
30, 2024) (R&R) Recommendation: Dastar should block Qingdao’s Lanham Act falseadvertising counterclaims based on Lashify’s claim to be the originator of lash technology, but false patent marking counterclaims should survive. 1, 2017 to Apr. 11, 2023 (claiming that various products were “patented”).
Unsurprisingly, the trademark claims survive a motion to dismiss, but associated falseadvertising claims don’t. In 2017, VFB began selling a pre-mixed canned Bloody Mary cocktail as “Vampire Gourmet Bloody Mary Cocktail,” allegedly made with actual tomatoes and vodka.
This case hit my alerts because of its discussion about keyword advertising, but first, I have to digest how the court got there. CV H-17-1068, 2017 WL 2957912, at *8 (S.D. In 2014, the defendant launched a website called “The Texas Tamales Warehouse” but was driven off of that. ” That prompted this litigation.
Shingle Savers counterclaimed, alleging, among other things, falseadvertising under the Lanham Act and violation of the Ohio Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Lanham Act/ODTPA claims: First, the court declined to hold that Rule 9(b) applied to Lanham Act falseadvertising claims, which don’t require fraud.
OSD Audio then sued Outlaw under §512(f), and Outlaw counterclaimed for falseadvertising and unfair competition under the Lanham Act, copyright infringement, and trade libel. Lanham Act: The user manual did not constitute “commercial advertising or promotion.”
1, 2024) NYU Langone sued Northwell for trade dress infringement, unfair competition and false designation of origin, and falseadvertising under the Lanham Act, as well as related claims under the New York GBL and New York common law. The court dismissed the complaint—the falseadvertising claims with prejudice.
Plaid responded that PNC knew about this as early as 2017 and worked with Plaid to make it easier for PNC customers to connect to fintech apps. PNC sued for counterfeiting, infringement, and falseadvertising/unfair competition under federal and Pennsylvania law. Plaid’s messaging also encouraged PNC customers to change banks.”
On November 7 th , Conde Nast sued Drake and 21 Savage for $4 million for falseadvertising and infringing Vogue’s trademarks. 2017: [link]. The court issued a preliminary injunction and the duo agreed to no longer use Vogue’s marks in connection with the album. Metaverse and NFT Filings Decrease. 2020: [link]. 2019: [link].
Portkey sued for unfair competition/reverse passing off, falseadvertising, and trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, as well as related state-law claims. Where there is no allegation of a comparative advertisement, §43(a)(1)(B) requires “some affirmative indication of actual injury and causation.”
28, 2022) Chanel sued What Goes Around Comes Around (WGACA), alleging trademark infringement, falseadvertising, false association/endorsement, and related NY GBL claims for deceptive/unfair trade practices and falseadvertising. Until 2017, it also used the hashtag #WGACACHANEL in its social media posts.
30, 2022) Pegasystems alleged that defendants, which compete with it in the business process management (BPM) software field, engaged in falseadvertising and commercial disparagement in an online report that portrayed Pegasystems unfavorably. 19-11461-PBS, 2022 WL 4630231, F.Supp.3d Previous discussion.) Chapter 93A).
26, 2024) Defendant, d/b/a Wonderland, operated an adult entertainment club and was one of the many such sued by various models for using their images in advertising without their consent from 2015 to 2019. The consent judgment was a lump sum and, Princeton argued, included uncovered claims; most of the images fell within the 2017-18 period.
But Industria does not advertise or sell its Zenú or Ranchera products in the United States and there are no market surveys specific to the United States for Zenú or Ranchera. Advertisements made for Latinfood Zenú products used the phrase “una deliciosa tradición,” which translates to “a delicious tradition.”
Common law fraud: There’s a three year limitations period, and plaintiffs sued in August 2017. Each time they bought a bottle of Poland Spring water, they had a mature claim for falseadvertising… [A] second sale did not affect whether the first sale was legal or compound the damages from the first sale.”
WPI counterclaimed against Restellini and third-party Institut Restellini SAS – Documentation Centre alleging copyright infringement and falseadvertising. In 2017, WI granted WPI an automatically renewable, exclusive license to use and exploit the content of all of WI’s materials, including the Modigliani material.
Netaifm alleged that defendants engaged in anticompetitive market behavior when the Jain entities acquired majority shares of two local design firms, which connect manufacturers to growers, and alleged falseadvertising. Jain is Netafim’s largest competitor.
Her experience also includes representing trademark owners in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board; counseling clients on clearance, prosecution, falseadvertising, and enforcement of trademarks and copyrights; and counseling on domain name issues and intellectual property license agreements.
Elysium’s expert, Sowers, tested the allegation that ChromaDex advertising deceived customers into believing that the FDA reviewed ChromaDex’s product, Tru Niagen, for efficacy. Respondents were never shown an advertising statement conveying the control message.” As a general matter, “[e]rrors in methodology.
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Falseadvertising: Plaintiffs alleged that the following statements from Roup’s website bio were false or misleading: “I knew that there was something missing from the boutique fitness community, so I combined my passion for dance and love for fitness to create The Sculpt Society.
They alleged violation of California’s FAL and UCL, falseadvertising under the Lanham Act, trade libel, and negligence. The complaint was filed mid-2021, and the injuries allegedly began in mid-2017, which was outside the statute of limitations for everything but the UCL.
In 2017, the last year before the switch, Omaze reported approximately $750,000 in revenue, with the substantial majority—approximately $450,000—passed through to CAFA. “In This is disclosed in the fine print at the bottom of Omaze campaign pages. Multiple state AGs have, again understandably, investigated and settled with Omaze.
According to Nestle’s own alleged statements, the child labor conditions have worsened rather than improved since the inception of the “NESTLÉ® Cocoa Plan”: from 2017 to 2019, the number of children working on cocoa farms nearly doubled. Walker alleged CLRA and UCL violations. in deciding whether to purchase these products, and.
3, 2022) This is a lawsuit about an allegedly fake review of Beyond Blond’s video on Amazon allegedly written by Heldman on September 10, 2017. Commercial advertising or promotion: Yes, because the review was commercial speech made by Beyond Blond’s direct competitor. “[S]peech CV 20-5581 DSF (GJSx) (C.D.
Sanderson continues to use and defend the use of antibiotics, but advertised its chicken products as “100% Natural” and ran advertisements stating that there were “[n]o antibiotics to worry about here.” Nor were activities after suit was filed in June 2017, such as expending resources on the litigation and litigation publicity.
May 16, 2017. 271 , Trademark Infringement, Trademark Counterfeiting, and Unfair Competition, False Designation of Origin, and FalseAdvertising, under 15 U.S.C. §§ 114 and 1125(a). Registration No. Registration Date. OPTISELECT. September 14, 2004. April 29, 2008. April 9, 2019. January 6, 2015.
To get a sense of the costs at issue, over 2017-2019, at least 485 consumers purchased stem cell therapy injections from one defendant, Superior, at a total cost of $3,350,416. They provided “resources — marketing manuals, flyers, lectures, sample emails ads, and PowerPoints — and a procedure to launch advertising campaigns.”
In so ruling, the Court found that Defendants’ affirmative defenses of laches and acquiescence failed as a matter of law because (1) they were based on an alleged 2017 assignment of the EMERSON QUIET KOOL trademark from American Ductless AC Corp. American Ductless”) to Defendant Emerson Quiet Kool Co.
17-CV-647, 2017 WL 3168525 (N.D. July 26, 2017), vacated and remanded, 742 F. Defendants relied on two cases rejecting similar theories, including one that was vacated by the Ninth Circuit in light of California cases more favorable to plaintiffs (Goldman v. Bayer AG, No. App’x 325 (9th Cir. 2018); and Howard v. Bayer Corp.,
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. cum laude , from Georgetown University Law Center in 2017, his Ph.D.
The 2017 label also references the “coast” and includes a map of Oregon with leaves denoting the locations of the Willamette, Umpqua, and Rogue Valleys. the 2017 reads “ACAMPO, CA • CONTAINS SULFITES.” The labels describe the wine at issue here as an “Oregon Pinot Noir.” It contains the phrase “Purely Oregon, Always Coastal.”
Mueller has continuously been in charge since 2017. He made a similar statement in 2019 during a GCE earnings call attributing unexpectedly good new student online growth to the non-profit advertising. The DOE also ordered GCU to cease advertising “nonprofit” status. Defendants mostly complied. “If,
2017), without noting that it had been rejected by the Seventh Circuit in Bell v. However, “All Butter” was ambiguous in context—it was obvious that the product was not a stick of butter, but a cake—and it wasn’t enough to allege that reasonable consumers would expect from the label that there wouldn’t be non-butter shortening. 3d 910 (N.D.
In 2017, the Coalition for Safer Food Processing and Packaging, a group of nonprofit health and food safety advocacy organizations, allegedly detected phthalates in nine of the ten tested cheese powder products and found that the phthalate levels in those cheese powders were on average four times higher than in the 15 natural cheeses tested.
Plaintiffs contended that omissions and inaccuracies rendered the Tanbook of no value to its users and that, after receiving complaints, Matthew Bender included the previously omitted statutes and regulations in the 2017 edition, which, although published late in the calendar year, was sold to plaintiffs and other subscribers at full price.
Asst Controller of Patents and Designs , (passed on May 15) the Court meandered through the legislative history of Section 3(k) of the Patents Act and observed that there is a lack of clarity on the meaning of “technical effect” and “contribution” under the present 2017 CRI guidelines used by the Patent Office. Makemytrip (India) Pvt.
The parties discussed potential partnership in 2017 and 2018, but the discussions didn’t go well. It then received fast strack designation, which allowed it priority review, and filed an NDA for Valtoco in 2018; this was pending at the time of the operative complaint. Meanwhile, Aquestive’s Libervant obtained orphan drug designation in 2016.
1744, 1757 (2017)…. Second, of course, confusing and explicitly misleading are two very different things—even “fraudulent” and explicitly misleading are two very different things, which is one reason that Lanham Act falseadvertising cases have developed workarounds to treat deliberately misleading ads the same way as explicitly false ads.
Interface interference is a tactic that hinders consumers from performing actions like cancelling subscriptions or deleting accounts, such as redirecting them to another page while trying to cancel a pop-up advertisement. YouTube also earns from advertisers by inserting video ads and allowing longer ads.
Here, the Lanham Act falseadvertising claim survives for a jury, but the RICO claims are tossed out on summary judgment because theyre RICO claims. Torch advertises that the devices are not gambling machines. TNT owns and leases out traditional arcade games and similar amusement equipment (e.g.,
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