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Eleventh Circuit Rules for Viacom in FLORA-BAMA Trademark Case

IP Watchdog

The company filed a cease-and-desist letter in 2017 when Viacom first aired Floribama Shore in 2017. MGFB, the company that filed the appeal, owns the “FLORA-BAMA” trademark and owns and operates the Flora-Bama Lounge on the border of Florida and Alabama.

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JD Supra Law

There once was a company named Zotz, Which created toys for tots, The newest toy, named Ketter™, Recalled after a cease and desist letter, Oh my, no trademark search, CEO Zotz? First published in Inside magazine, NYSBA, Fall 2017. By: Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

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Major Record Labels Sue Youtube-dl’s Hosting Provider

TorrentFreak

Law firm Rasch works with several major music industry players and it was on their behalf that cease-and-desist orders were sent to local hosting service Uberspace. While the RIAA’s effort to take down youtube-dl from GitHub grabbed all the headlines, moves had already been underway weeks before that in Germany.

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‘Where thou documents?’ asks BHC, denying interim injunction to Shemaroo

SpicyIP

However, after expiration of the period, Defendant 2 continued to exploit rights against which Plaintiff issued a cease and desist notice twice. Plaintiff filed this suit after the Defendant refused to resolve the matter amicably and didn’t reply to the Plaintiff’s cease and desist notice.

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3 Count: LEGO Jacket

Plagiarism Today

As a result, he sent a cease-and-desist letter to LEGO. The dispute began in 2017 when a dispute between the countries resulted in Saudi Arabia issuing a blockade against Qatar. According to the lawsuit, despite the tiny nature of the LEGO jacket, the company reproduced multiple elements from it.

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It’s Not a Bag, it’s a MetaBirkin!

IPilogue

The Birkin’s hefty price tag — a Diamond Himalaya Birkin sold for over $400,000 in 2017 — has made it a prime target for knockoffs. On December 16th, 2021, Hermès sent a cease-and-desist letter to both OpenSea and Rothschild, notifying them of the “blatant violation of intellectual property.”

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Is the Grinch Slasher Film a Protected Parody?

Plagiarism Today

Back in 2017, a group made plans to stage a play entitled Who’s Holiday , a one-woman show featuring a foul-mouthed grown up version of Cindy Lou Who. As the play got closer to opening, the Seuss estate sent cease and desist letters to try and stop it.