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Clone wars: truthful statements about cloned horses don't constitute false association

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Meeker, 2022 WL 6507718, NO. 19, 2022) Judge Cannon has done some other stuff, too. This case concerns major players in the world of professional polo, their efforts to produce and clone genetically superior horses, and the ownership disputes that have arisen from those efforts.” La Dolfina S.A.,

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False CMI isn't plausibly related to consumers' decisions to buy/watch TV show

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2022 WL 18278580, No. 22, 2022) Interesting Dastar case thrown up by Westlaw. As part of preliminary discussions with Vubiquity about a distribution agreement for iTunes, LW provided master copies of all 60 episodes, but no agreement was ever reached. False advertising: Sybersound Recs., Livn Worldwide Ltd.

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[Guest post] BAYC sues Ryder Ripps over unauthorized minting of NFTs

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On 24 June 2022, BAYC sued Ryder Ripps, a conceptual artist and NFT creator for trade mark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, cybersquatting and other cause of actions before the Central District of California. This is a U.S Ripps’s collection has sold out in 15 days, producing a revenue of 1,023.03

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(c), TM, and other claims from busted partnership to sell colored copper fixtures

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Stubenrauch, 2022 WL 2793579, No. 15, 2022) The parties in this case are former business associates, which is one reason there are so many different claims. This text contained “some creative elements that are plausibly entitled to protection, such that outright copying would be prohibited.” 3:21-cv-00545 (M.D. 1” therein.

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Inter American Convention allows claims that Lanham Act makes dubious after Abitron; but what about Article III?

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2022), demanded injury to sales or reputation in the US and held that “nebulous future plans for U.S. The court found that Industria’s argument for false advertising “falls on the wrong side of the line between a false association claim and a false advertising claim. Coca-Cola Company, 38 F.4th

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Ten things to know about NFTs

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The case was brought by Lavinia Deborah Osbourne (founder of Women in Blockchain Talks) against Ozone Networks (trading as OpenSea) in January 2022, after two NFT artworks that she had purchased from the Boss Beauties collection were taken from her digital wallet without her consent.

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(c) ownership claim allows both (c) and Lanham Act claims on motion to dismiss

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“Upon Darger’s death, the Lerners took control of his works under the allegedly false pretense that he had gifted the physical copies of his works and their associated copyrights to them.” In 2022, a distant relative was appointed as administrator of the Estate, which then sued.