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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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2024

While players such as StreamEast currently receive twice as many monthly visits, Livehd7 sites are mostly presented in Arabic so are directly relevant to the MENA market. Around September 18, 2023, various Livehd7-branded domain names began diverting to the ACE anti-piracy portal, including the following: livehd7i.com, livehd77.net,

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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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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Over the past few years the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been actively taking steps to address consumer protection concerns with sponsorships and endorsements within social media posts that have not been clearly disclosed. Proactively promote and facilitate compliance by brands.

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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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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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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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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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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Over the past few years the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been actively taking steps to address consumer protection concerns with sponsorships and endorsements within social media posts that have not been clearly disclosed. Take appropriate action where their terms of service are not complied with.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 18, 2024

In October 2022, the White House published its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. But, I also pointed to the way in which European regulators are once again (hello, GDPR) leading the way in regulating AI, both under the EU AI Act and the Digital Markets Act, disrupting the traditional gatekeepers of digital markets.

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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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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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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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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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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In re HIFI Brands, LLC , Serial Nos. 88905094 and 88905116 (September 9, 2022) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Melanye K. Welch 2022. The Board found the services to be overlapping, but what about the marks? How do you think this appeal came out? And so, the Board affirmed the refusal to register. Text Copyright John L.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 24, 2022

As many brand owners are now aware, the USPTO recently commenced copying registrants on notices of registration as part of their transition to electronic registrations. However, in. By: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

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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

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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2024

Russian media outlets are reporting that the volume of pirated content on the internet doubled between 2022 and 2023. million links is a notable uplift over the 485,000 reported in 2022, removal or blocking of links to allegedly-infringing content is just that. That’s not exactly true, or indeed true at all.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2023

Internet Brands opinion. Including the Internet Brands case, I found six cases using the phrase (see Appendix B). Internet Brands, Inc. , March 11, 2022) Al-Ahmed v. May 20, 2022) In re Apple Inc. App Store Simulated Casino-Style Games Litigation , 2022 WL 4009918 (N.D. 2, 2022) Dangaard v.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Redbud overview Redbud is a consumer venture ecosystem that creates, accelerates, scales, and funds innovative, better-for-you consumer brands through their venture capital studio (Redbud Brands) and venture fund (Redbud Ventures). Redbud finalized two Accelerator partnerships in 2022, and anticipates several more in 2023.

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

AstraZeneca’s brand protection journey is one of close collaboration, ‘learning by doing’, and adaptation in the face of new threats. Table of contents : • The start of AstraZeneca’s brand protection journey • Illegally diverted medicines, scams, and counterfeits – where does AstraZeneca focus its efforts? •

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A response is due on or before September 16, 2022. Jack Daniel's states the "questions presented" as follow: QUESTIONS PRESENTED Respondent VIP Products LLC markets and sells dog toys that trade on the brand recognition of famous companies such as petitioner Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. Welch 2022. pdf here ].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

The court is emphatic that the accounts “served as critical advertising platforms for JLM’s products affiliated with the Hailey Paige brands.” Gutman and JLM employees worked together to strategize as to how best to leverage the social media platforms to market the HP brands.” The court also found “Ms.

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