43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

14-MD-2542 (VSB), 2025 WL 354671 (S.D.N.Y. 30, 2025) This is a ruling on 19 motions to exclude expert testimony in this case, which is mostly an antitrust case; I will focus only on some false advertising-relevant rulings. Butler was an expert on survey research, market research, sampling, and statistical analysis.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

DistroKid, LLC , 2025 WL 450587 (S.D.N.Y. 11, 2025) The post “Volitional Conduct” Doctrine Helps DistroKid Defeat Copyright Infringement Claim–White v. DistroKid appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : White v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Old contracts many of the contracts that were signed by authors and academics pre-date the LLM/genAI era. Contractual interpretation dictates that the provisions must be given the meaning a reasonable person would have understood the intention of the parties to have been at the time the contract was concluded.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 4, 2025

This post is part of MoFos 2025 Intersection of AI and Life Sciences blog series. Stay tuned for expert insights regarding the impact of AI on intellectual property, licensing, contracts, regulatory policy, enforcement, privacy, and venture markets in life sciences. By: MoFo Life Sciences

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The IPKat

MARCH 25, 2025

Eleonora Rosati and Irene Calboli, 2025, OUP). Given the multifaceted nature of fashion law encompassing intellectual property, competition, contract, and e-commerce law, among others The Handbook of Fashion Law reflects this breadth by offering an equally expansive scope of topics, structured in a coherent manner.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 13, 2025

In this post, Yogesh Byadwal argues that these terms of use also offer an insight into the practice of expanding copyright using Contract Law. 2, a marketing/advertising agency acting under the instructions of defendant no.1, He then argues their impact on knowledge distillation in the context of Indian GenAI companies.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 28, 2025

with the right to distribute it for marketing and market education purposes. Each of these has important implications for serving market needs. This shift is fundamentally redefining what it means to practice law in 2025. CCC has licensed this analysis from Outsell, Inc. For questions, please contact Outsell.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In a case involving a patent for herbicide compositions, the UPC Munich Local Division was asked to consider whether the alleged infringer's marketing of a product within the Contracting Member States under the same brand name as a clearly infringing product sold outside the Member States created a risk of first (or imminent) infringement.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2022

Subscription marketing is on the rise with some predicting the subscription industry will more than double by 2025. Experts do not forecast this growth will taper off, as it is part of a larger trend of relationship-based marketing. Or perhaps the goal was really to drive app download and loyalty signups.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

to commercialize several of Abbott’s oncology, women’s health, and respiratory disease biosimilars for emerging markets in Latin America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. According to the press release, the first molecules subject to the agreement are expected to launch as early as 2025.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In early 2020, a group of legislators submitted to the House of Representatives to prohibit the installation and operation of coal-fired power plants nationwide by 2025. In 2020, as part of its NDC, Brazil reaffirmed its reduction target of 37% by 2025 and assumed a new target of 43% by 2030 (compared to 2005 levels).

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Herbert Smith Freehills

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In early 2020, a group of legislators submitted to the House of Representatives to prohibit the installation and operation of coal-fired power plants nationwide by 2025. In 2020, as part of its NDC, Brazil reaffirmed its reduction target of 37% by 2025 and assumed a new target of 43% by 2030 (compared to 2005 levels).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The specific Working Groups (WGs) then will meet several times for drafting rounds between September 2024 and April 2025. The Plenary kick-off meeting took place on 30 September 2024. The Chairs for each of the four WGs of the Plenary, including WG1 on transparency and copyright-related rules are listed here.

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Trading Secrets

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Part of the reason for changing the pre-merger requirements is the FTCs acknowledgment of market changes, noting the changing nature of competition since the inception of the HSR and the need to respond to such changes.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

DECEMBER 2, 2020

billion by 2025. [ii] The 2018 Farm Bill led to widespread availability of products containing CBD, which are commonly marketed as dietary supplements, drugs, food, and cosmetics. This is primarily due to the centuries-old Illegality Doctrine, which holds that a court may not enforce claims or contracts that are based in illegal acts.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As India aims for a $5 trillion economy, the MSME ministry sets ambitious goals, aiming to elevate their GDP contribution by up to 50% by 2025. MSMEs foster innovation by nurturing aspiring entrepreneurs, encouraging the development of innovative goods that enhance market competitiveness and fuel sustained growth.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 14, 2023

The CTA defines “ownership interest” as any instrument, contract, arrangement, understanding, or mechanism used to establish ownership (such as any equity, stock, capital, or profit interest). Reporting Companies created before January 1, 2024, have one year (until January 1, 2025) to file the required information.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2025

As usual, the court then discusses standard contract formation principles (conspicuous notice of terms and unambiguous manifestation of assent) to figure out if the TOS is enforceable. For any reasonably prudent Internet user, this was enough to bind her in contract. At the same time, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for ClassPass.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Copyrightability The case sets up one of the longstanding open questions in copyright law: when are form contracts copyrightable, and when is sharing them infringing? ” Due to that concession, questions about the copyrightability of form contracts will continue to fester. 2025 WL 485493 (D. Fireline Farms, Inc.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The hybrid event, taking place on 28 and 29 January 2025, will address the latest developments and challenges in geographical indications for craft and agricultural products. Papers in French or English covering any topic related to IP law may be submitted no later than 21 February 2025. More information here. Review the report here.

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Mani, 2025 ONCA 45 , serves as an important reminder for both buyers and sellers in real estate transactions: clear communication is key when dealing with missed deadlines and potential breaches of an agreement of purchase and sale for property (APS). A recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision, VanderMolen Homes Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

March 10, 2025) Curiosity Stream is a paywalled site for documentary videos. The plaintiffs procured a subscription, and a “subscription is, by definition, a contract.” Privacy policies are legally binding documents, either as marketing representations or bilateral contracts. CuriosityStream, Inc. ,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 2, 2025

Image by Martina Bulkov from Pixabay In March 2025 the New Zealand Supreme Court confirmed that copyright is relationship property, to be divided accordingly when a qualifying relationship ends. And contracting out agreements will become more important for creators to secure the whole copyright if a relationship ends.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

At the same time, market uptake of biosimilars in the United States continued to increase, suggesting that there is room for expansion of biosimilars in the U.S. In addition, fewer new biosimilars entered the market this past year, with five biosimilar launches in 2020 as compared to seven in 2019. Yet biosimilars of anti-TNF?

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Intepat

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As a result, businesses are leveraging patents to secure their innovations in green technology, ensuring they stay competitive in a market that values sustainability. Globalization and Harmonization of Patent Systems The globalization of markets and the interconnectedness of economies are driving the need for a more harmonized patent system.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

It has been estimated to reach the market valuation of 1100 crore by the financial year 2025.[ 2 ] As there is no specific legislation regarding e-sports, most of the work is contract oriented. The worldwide market is of $3 Billion with millennial and Gen-Z population as core engagers.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

2025 WL 579957, No. 21, 2025) Yodice sued Touro for reimbursement of tuition and fees he paid during the Spring 2020 semester, when Touros campuses were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yodice alleged that TCDM markets various aspects of the on-campus student experience to the public. Touro College & Univ. Pace Univ.,

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 25, 2025

A staple of law enforcement agencies everywhere, ‘disruption’ is perhaps the most accurate term to describe successes in the context of an expansive, oversupplied, yet adaptive piracy market. That exploited and then exploded a market that in relative terms barely existed.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

According to the recital, the rationale is that such a rule is “necessary to ensure a level playing field” among GPAI model providers “where no provider should be able to gain a competitive advantage in the Union market by applying lower copyright standards than those provided in the Union.” C-136/04 , para. 23; C-134/08 , para 19).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

2025 WL 819567 (C.D. 21, 2025) The post First Amendment Doesn’t Apply to Descriptions of Content Moderation Practices–Bride v. Snap appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : Bride v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Six4Three’s contract breach claim is outside Section 230, per Calise v. As I mentioned in my blog post about Calise, other state appellate rulings disagree with the Calise ruling on 230’s application to contract claims. Contract Breach Claim. Despite getting around Section 230, the contract claim is still a loser.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

2025 WL 603598 (E.D. Confirm ID appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Good news for AFF/Confirm ID, but they could have easily done much better with these implementations, even without adopting a two-click process. Case Citation : Murphy v. Confirm ID, Inc.

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The IPKat

MARCH 5, 2025

The survey closes on 1 April 2025. Question the Trade Mark Judges The UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law and MARQUES are hosting their annual "Question the Trade Mark Judges" event on 25 March 2025 , 6:00-7:30 pm, in hybrid format. Details and link to complete the survey here. See details and the portal for feedback here.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 9, 2025

As with Chabolla, the fact that Plex failed independently on two different screens doesnt change the answer: the Court will not find that a contract was formed by combining independently insufficient elements of notice and assent across several webpages. 2025 WL 948118 (N.D. March 28, 2025) BONUS: Edwards v. 2025 WL 985130 (N.D.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Further drafts are to be prepared, with the final version of the Code forecast to be released by 2 May 2025, in accordance with Article 56 (Codes of Practice) of the EU AI Act. The AI Offices idea is to provide a future-proof Code that will also be appropriate for the next generation of AI models released after the May 2025 deadline.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 9, 2025

YouTube, LLC , 2025 WL 582785 (2d Cir. YouTube appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Better yet, water down or eliminate any “promises” about notices, explanations, or appeals (to the extent permitted by law) so that the plaintiffs can’t deploy any tendentious reading skills. Case Citation : Qian v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2025

A different way of saying this: you can have the most airtight contract formation process ever, but if you can’t provide credible evidence of the process, it can still fail in court. Case Citation : In re Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation , 2025 WL 289726 (S.D.N.Y. The CourtListener page.

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