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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

2020 WL 9210739, No. 6, 2020) From the deepest depths of backlog: Tocmail alleged that Microsoft’s deceptive promotions of its cyber-security service, Safe Links, constituted false advertising and contributory false advertising. This wasn’t enough to state a claim for contributory false advertising. “[T]he

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Unsurprisingly, the trademark claims survive a motion to dismiss, but associated false advertising claims don’t. VFB alleged trademark infringement, and that the Vampiro Cocktail label’s claims that it is made from 100% agave and with grapefruit were false advertising that would tarnish and dilute VFB’s marks.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lawmakers in New York City and New York State banned the sale of unfinished frames and receivers in 2020 and 2022, respectively. The advertising bit: Defendants allegedly misled New York customers into “believing that unfinished frames and receivers are legal workarounds to New York’s gun control laws, as well as federal law.”

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In August 2020, Krikor discovered that Sports Mall had posted at least six of her photographs on its website and advertised the depicted items for sale on its site…. This alleged chutzpah triggered the false advertising element of the case. “[T]he Sports Mall operates its own website. Query: are there actual damages?

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

15, 2023) Simpson sued its competitor MiTek for using Simpson part numbers for structural connectors/fasteners for use in the construction industry in its catalogs/other promotional material; the court here, after a nonjury trial before the magistrate judge, rather comprehensively rejects its false advertising, trademark, and copyright claims. (It

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

17, 2020) A lot of stuff here; I will ignore the non-false advertising related aspects of this mostly antitrust case. The court says the usual not-good things about false advertising’s relationship to antitrust, unfortunately: Deceptive speech usually doesn’t violate antitrust laws. 17-md-2785-DDC-TJJ (D.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Its principal, Patton, allegedly promoted the business “by creating a fictionalized crisis between [FedEx] and its ISPs and TSPs as an advertisement for the purported need for Route Consultant’s consultancy and other services.” Was this “commercial advertising or promotion”?

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Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

MAY 15, 2021

May 7, 2021), the Court granted Natera’s motion to exclude at trial the opinions of CareDx’s damages expert relating to “corrective advertising damages.” 1117(a)(2), a successful false advertising plaintiff can recover the costs of any completed advertising that actually and reasonably responds to the defendant’s offending ads.’” Id.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2024

This case hit my alerts because of its discussion about keyword advertising, but first, I have to digest how the court got there. ” More Posts About Keyword Advertising * Internal Search Results Aren’t Trademark Infringing–PEM v. ” That prompted this litigation. ” UGH.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

9, 2023) Along with updating its previous decision (I didn’t see anything that affected the Lanham Act analysis of the key issue of whether a retailer can sue a supplier for false advertising), the court addressed a motion to dismiss by defendant ViaClean.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

7, 2023) Navatar sued for state and federal false advertising, as well as commercial defamation, injurious falsehoods, unfair competition. Navatar Group, Inc. DealCloud, Inc., 2023 WL 1797266, No. 21-cv-1255 (SHS) (S.D.N.Y.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

OSD Audio then sued Outlaw under §512(f), and Outlaw counterclaimed for false advertising and unfair competition under the Lanham Act, copyright infringement, and trade libel. Lanham Act: The user manual did not constitute “commercial advertising or promotion.” But “[n]ot all commercial speech is promotional.” Prager Univ.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2022

For example, according to the complaint: On August 19, 2020, Plaintiff searched for “Royal Silk” under all departments on Amazon.com, yielding 60 product listings, including “Sponsored” product listings—ads paid for by the seller. ” The false designation of origin claim is similarly governed by the Ninth Circuit’s Lasoff v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 31, 2024

In 2020, Medina got the disclosures from the 2014 case sealed. He then sued the court document repository websites (and other defendants) for defamation, false advertising, and more. The trial court anti-SLAPPED that lawsuit. The appeals court affirms. I’ll concentrate on the Section 230 discussion.

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DuetsBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In case you missed it, here is my Trademark Nominative Fair Use of Another’s Logo post from March, leading up to the 2020 AIPLA Annual Spring Meeting. The post 2020 Midwest IP Institute in the Books appeared first on DuetsBlog ®.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Since in or about late 2020, ML Fashion has been receiving calls from vendors about unpaid bills or about where to ship certain goods that have turned out to be for Nobelle.” But the complaint didn’t actually allege that defendants advertised items from “The Line,” only that they sold them.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In late 2020, KDI told Metrasens that the Intertek unit tested was an old version. For injury, a plaintiff must generally prove damages, but they may be presumed in cases of willful deception where the plaintiff was the target of comparative advertising. And it is a rebuttable presumption.

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APRIL 15, 2024

Eat Just, GMI’s parent company, filed an ITU for a stylized GOOD Meat mark in 2020; in 2021, defendants entered into agreements granting their security interests in the intent-to-use application to a third party, and also Eat Just assigned the entirety of its business having an interest in the GMI mark to GMI.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 22, 2021

Courts have rejected Section 230 defenses against claims for false advertising, deceptive trade practices, and tortious interference. 29 (2020); U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE’S REVIEW OF SECTION 230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT OF 1996 (2020). See, e.g., E-Ventures Worldwide, LLC v. Google, Inc. , 3d 1265 (M.D.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

In late 2020, a new Plaid user interface finally propitiated PNC. PNC sued for counterfeiting, infringement, and false advertising/unfair competition under federal and Pennsylvania law. Plaid’s messaging also encouraged PNC customers to change banks.” I attempt to reconnect.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 27, 2024

This is a false advertising lawsuit again the mobile app game Game of Thrones: Conquest. Also, the district court took issue with the 2020 call-to-action referring to the TOS as “Terms of Use” when it was actually the “Terms of Service.” sought to send the case to arbitration. Warner Bros.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It alleged that the Philips defendants, who make such devices, engaged in false advertising about one of SoClean’s devices in order to deflect blame for the Philips devices’ design defects. Commercial advertising or promotion: A separate problem. Recall notice: Eli Lilly & Co. Roussel Corp., 2d 460 (D.N.J.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

1, 2021) De Cortes, an 84-year old woman, worked for defendants/predecessors from 2003-2020 in their real estate business. In 2020, De Cortes obtained a Florida real estate sales associate license and asked if she could serve as a real estate agent for BIR. Defendants represent 170 owners of units in the Four Ambassadors.

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MAY 2, 2022

28, 2022) Chanel sued What Goes Around Comes Around (WGACA), alleging trademark infringement, false advertising, false association/endorsement, and related NY GBL claims for deceptive/unfair trade practices and false advertising. WGACA, LLC, 2022 WL 902931, No. 2253 (LLS) (S.D.N.Y.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 20, 2022

On November 7 th , Conde Nast sued Drake and 21 Savage for $4 million for false advertising and infringing Vogue’s trademarks. 2020: [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. 2019: [link]. 2018: [link].

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Plaintiff attempted to plead that a small number of calls to people contracting with it constituted “commercial advertising or promotion,” but the court still didn’t buy it. Vacasa LLC, No. 6:21-cv-326-MC, 2021 WL 5316986 (D. 15, 2021) Previous motion to dismiss. In Grubbs v. Sheakley Grp., 3d 785 (6th Cir.

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MARCH 18, 2022

Fresh Bourbon allegedly falsely advertises that Fresh Bourbon is the “first black-owned bourbon distillery in Kentucky,” and makes other related false claims, which is allegedly false because it’s not a distillery, which requires both federal (TTB) and Kentucky (KABC) licenses.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

16, 2021) Previous ruling ; new judge still finds the false advertising claims sufficiently pled. Thus, Microsoft allegedly falsely advertises its scanner as possessing a security capability that it does not actually possess; TocMail identified statements such as “a higher standard of security at lower cost than. [is

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

J-B has used unqualified “Made in USA” claims in its advertising. ITW advertises “the interchange between its products and the matching OEM manufacturer products” in its materials, sometimes including OEM interchanges for specific automotive brands in its package advertising. Epoxy: In J-B Weld Co., Gorilla Glue Co.,

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

They plausibly alleged, with examples, lots of horsepower claims, and plausibly alleged that an ordinary person would understand these representations to mean that a treadmill’s in-home continuous horsepower matched the “CHP” value advertised.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Beyond 79, LLC, 2020 WL 9848431, No. 15, 2020) Previous opinion. From 2011 to the present, Defendant has published various advertisements stating that it is ranked or rated “#1” by the Today Show. Express Gold Cash, Inc. 18-CV-00837 EAW (W.D.N.Y. The parties compete in the market for buying gold from ordinary people.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

2, 2022) Before the jury verdict in favor of Monster’s false advertising claim was this opinion resolving evidentiary issues. They weren’t directly asked about the phrase “Super Creatine,” whether participants had prior experiences with or opinions of Bang, or whether they had seen Vital’s advertising in the market.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Plaintiffs purchased Ikon ski passes for the 2019-20 ski season but, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Defendants closed their ski resorts on March 15, 2020.” 2020) and its progeny, everything but the CLRA claim for damages should be dismissed because these equitable claims were only available if legal claims failed. 3d 834 (9th Cir.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I n mid-2020, Marchese allegedly contacted Wakefern about the possibility of joining the Wakefern cooperative. Perhaps overreacting, Wakefern sued for trademark infringement and false advertising in violation of the Lanham Act and violation of state unfair competition law, which is coextensive and thus disappears from our story.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

As soon as it was enacted, Fountainhead advertised that it would “soon be tackling the loan inquiries lined up in our queue, providing business owners with capital they need within days.” It sought to represent a class bringing state law claims for fraudulent concealment, unfair business practices, and false advertising.

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MAY 12, 2022

They are: the Unfair Competition Law (UCL); the False Advertising Law (FAL); and the Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA). While they often cover the same conduct in false advertising cases and are cumulative of each other, they have differences. 5th 642, 651 (2020). 5th 279, 306 (2020) (quoting § 17500).

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AUGUST 20, 2021

24, 2021) Plaintiffs sought class certification of their false advertising claims based on the claims that KIND falsely advertised “All Natural / Non-GMO,” “Non-GMO,” and “No Genetically Engineered Ingredients”; KIND sought to exclude expert reports. 2020), held that past purchasers couldn’t maintain an injunctive class.

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