JD Supra Law

JANUARY 11, 2023

Name, Image, and Likeness Deals Are on the Rise - Name, Image, and Likeness (“NIL”) agreements, which allow an individuals’ name, image, and likeness to be used to market and sell branded apparel, footwear, and other consumer goods are on the rise. On July 1, 2021, in response to the famous NCAA v.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Background Amgen produces and markets apremilast, a medication for the treatment of certain types of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, under the brand name Otezla. Sandoz submitted an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) seeking approval to market a generic version of apremilast. Thus, citing Genentech, Inc. Sandoz Inc. ,

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43(B)log

JUNE 10, 2024

4, 2024) Finding Zesty Paws’ “#1 Brand” claim literally false, the court grants a preliminary injunction despite Zesty Paws’ attempt to create a factual dispute about what a “brand” is. Nutramax and Zesty Paws are direct competitors in the pet supplement market. A brand can be a limping mark!) Nutramax Labs.,

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On October 25, 2022, following a string of antisemitic remarks and hate speech from Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) on social media, Adidas announced their decision to terminate their co-branding partnership with Ye and end production of all Yeezy branded products. While Ye’s company, Mascotte Holdings Inc.

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The IPKat

MARCH 12, 2025

The brand owners would have no desire for Samwise Gamgee's stewed rabbit - let alone his chips with a nice piece of fried fish - albeit for a different reason than Gollum: the Lord of the Fries menu is entirely vegan. The brand continues to operate nine stores in Australia. Promotional images of the "Lord of the."

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Patently-O

AUGUST 19, 2022

18, 2022 ). In 2018, Eagle filed its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) with the FDA seeking to market a generic version of Par’s vasopressin injection product (Vasostrict) used for emergency blood pressure treatment. by Dennis Crouch. Eagle Pharm., 2021-2342, — F.4th 4th — ( Fed. 35 U.S.C. §

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IPilogue

JANUARY 20, 2022

This is the same Louvre that launched “a flurry of brand partnerships” in 2021 with brands ranging from Casetify to Uniqlo. Despite this, the museum directors and head curators that Cheshire spoke to are confident in their ability to adapt to the changes that 2022 will bring.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The issue of counterfeiting not only compromises a brand’s reputation or brand value, but also puts consumer safety at risk by allowing the sale and uninformed purchase of sub-standard goods. In the year 2017 the market value of the E-commerce was $38.5 Nakul Bajaj & Ors. [4] 4] [Civil Suit No. 344/2018]. [5]

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2022

While Hailey Bieber’s new skin care brand Rhode promises “ happy and hydrated skin, ” the brand itself has a blemish: an alleged trademark infringement. Rhode-NYC argues that Hailey Bieber’s use of her middle name “Rhode” as the name of her skin care brand is creating market confusion and potential harm to its goodwill and reputation.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

pic.twitter.com/sqpOThi8nf — Tim Davis (@DocSparse) October 16, 2022. — Alex Graveley (@alexgraveley) October 16, 2022. One of the key reasons the Supreme Court cited in deciding the way that it did was that Oracle had not made any effort to enter the mobile market, thus Google’s version was not a direct competitor.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Yesterday, it was all about key developments in the copyright field in the Africa IP Highlights 2022 – the result of collaboration between myself and Doreen Adoma Agyei and Clarisse Mideva. Today, it’s all about trade marks.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to publish another guest contribution by Danish Katfriends Jakob Plesner Mathiasen , Hanne Kirk and Thit Nymand Nisbeth (all Gorrissen Federspiel) tackling influencer marketing from an IP perspective. This emerging breed is - very tellingly - called influencer marketing.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2023

Hovering a cursor over the blacked-out area revealed what should’ve been hidden and click led directly to the site considered most damaging to the home market in Japan. The slide with the unredacted text above covers the period June-July 2022. The slide below is from a more recent report covering September-October 2022.

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Garrigues Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Nonetheless, brands have evolved and now adopt a more pragmatic approach, seeking to improve the client experience and linking NFTs to the traceability of the items of clothing. The fashion industry was one of the first industries to enthusiastically explore the opportunities afforded by the metaverse and NFTs (non-fungible tokens).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2023

[Image Sources : Istock] Metaverse- a Magnet to Fashion Brands Virtual worlds provide fashion brands with the opportunity to significantly cut down on the excessive resource consumption of lifestyle and create sustainability. Not to mention, it allows for almost infinite expansion, allowing marketers to design apparel of any size.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Whether they will be branded ‘notorious markets’ remains to be seen, but it’s interesting to see which platforms could face unexpected pressure in the months and years to come. Lalastreams / istream2watch.com is a family of Streaming Websites that have amassed almost 60 million global visits so far in 2022.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 19, 2024

In the Scandinavian pirate market, Viking IPTV is a well-known brand and according to Rights Alliance, business appears to have been brisk. Rights Alliance reports that all plaintiffs were awarded damages by the Patent and Market Court (PMD), with the TV companies appearing to take the lion’s share.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 4, 2022

Pyrotechnics (under the “FireOne” brand) claims to be the “world leader in digital pyrotechnic firing systems.” Pyrotechnics wants to control the market for every component of its system. XFX Pyrotechnics LLC , 2022 WL 2336477 (3d. June 29, 2022). Implications.

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The IPKat

JUNE 28, 2024

Background In October 2022, Mr. Aslan travelled from Turkey to Germany. They estimated the market value of original Off-White items to be around $11,700. Comment Brand owners know that the battle against counterfeiting and piracy remains a challenging one.

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The IPKat

JUNE 24, 2024

After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 , many brands announced that they would leave the Russian market. If public announcements were to be believed, more than 1000 companies planned to leave Russia in 2022. Who actually left? Image from Pixabay. Who is maintaining their IP rights?

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In the spring and summer of 2022, following the international sanctions imposed upon Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, Russia introduced several landmark changes to its IP law, most notably to patent, trademark and copyright laws. The list includes such well-known brands as Apple, HP, Panasonic, Siemens, Tesla, and Volkswagen.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Also, it is often a significant threat to the health and safety of consumers and to the reputation of brands. As a result, it is harder for brand owners to track counterfeiters down and seize shipments given that fakes travel often in small parcels. Train and educate the customs authorities about your brand.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Bonnie Hassanzadeh is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. In 2012, Reebok, following public criticism of its marketing campaign in Germany, abandoned its slogan : “Cheat on your girlfriend, not on your workout.”.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In assessing the infringement claims and the cross-claims for invalidity, the Federal Court found that Australian consumers would not understand the word "mercato" (market or marketplace), but could probably recognise the meaning of "centrale" (central). The Facts AU Trade Mark No.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 13, 2024

My Market, LLC, (Plaintiff) an Indiana-based convenience store operator, has initiated legal proceedings against Batth Markets, Inc. My Market, LLC has been operating as a convenience store in Fort Wayne, Indiana , and holds a federal trademark for the service mark “MY MARKET FISH CHICKEN SANDWICHES SHRIMP” (U.S.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The event was, as ever, chaired by PermaKat Prof Dr Eleonora Rosati together with Giulia Gasparin, and the calibre and range of the speakers was bound to result in lively discussion; with panellists from marketplaces such as Amazon, Zalando and Etsy engaging in discussion with brand and consumer voices as well as private practice lawyers.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

271751, titled “Preparation of AZOXYSTROBIN” The plaintiffs manufacture and market Azoxystrobin under the brand name AMISTAR. However, this method of appointment does not fully align with the process established under the Delhi High Court Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules, 2022 (See here ).

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2023

Late 2021, Hollywood and Netflix obtained a High Court injunction to block Soap2Day domains in the UK along with a similar order early February 2022 in Australia and an expansion a few months later. In October 2022, Hollywood reported Soap2Day to the United States government.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2023

” In its 2022 ‘Engaging With Music’ report, IFPI estimates that almost a third of people say they have used illegal or unlicensed methods to download and listen to music. The major threat in today’s market has been growing for many years, mainly because it’s so quick and easy.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Haute24 is an online e-commerce platform whose stated aim is to make luxury apparel from the US and Europe affordable for the Indian market (see here ). Louis Vuitton submitted that these were specially commissioned works used for advertising and marketing their products, and were being used without authorization by the defendants.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Over three-quarters of Extreme-Down’s visitors hailed from the region in December 2022, with Belgium, Canada and Switzerland accounting for most of the remainder. Spotting a gap in the market for sites with the same design and a similar name, copycat sites appeared one after another in a race to dominate search results.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 16, 2025

The boys were looking for 90,000 in return for a 5% stake in Doughboys Group Limited, a frozen pizza brand disrupting the market with its tasty Italian sourdough pizzas, designed to add some flavour to the wholesale market. Protecting your business's logo with a trade mark is a crucial step in safeguarding your brand identity.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2022

On 12 January 2022, the Lithuanian Supreme Court upheld the rejection of the Lithuanian designation of Chanel SARL’s two-dimensional trademark (see below) in Class 3 for perfumery products. So the Court considered that Chanel’s perfume bottle is commonplace within the perfume market. The trademark depicts the shape of the Chanel No.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This article was originally posted on E-TIPS For Deeth Williams Wall LLP on January 26, 2022. . The Bureau and HPFB have also committed to working together on Bureau-led enforcement actions, such as when generic pharmaceutical companies report having difficulty obtaining reference samples from branded drug manufacturers.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 1, 2022

A year after Megaupload was shut down, Kim Dotcom launched a brand new file-hosting service called Mega. The latest release shows that in the first quarter of 2022, copyright holders sent 1,187,646 takedown requests. “During the 9 years to 31st March 2022, Mega has closed 744,000 accounts for sharing objectionable content.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 31, 2023

Background Amgen produces and markets apremilast, a medication for the treatment of certain types of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, under the brand name Otezla. This case is an appellate review of the district court’s findings regarding patent obviousness and priority date. By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Copyright © Hornit, 2022. He described how this has allowed him to work with brand protection consultancy, SnapDragon to carry out searches of digital markets for counterfeit versions of the CLUG. So, you have a brand and a product, what next? Search the trade mark register for similar brands before applying.

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