TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2022

It found that the majority (76%) openly advertised their payment options with Visa, Mastercard and PayPal leading the way. Pirates Expolit Payment Processor Branding. PayPal is committed to finding a workable solution to combat piracy’s impact on the industry and on their brand. IPTV and Cryptocurrencies.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This principle helps protect small businesses that adopt a trademark before larger companies enter the same space. This article explains what reverse confusion means and how it affects businesses, using case examples from India and the U.S. But reverse confusion flips this scenario. Big O sued Goodyear, claiming trademark infringement.

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azrights

MAY 10, 2022

It’s well known that the failure rate of small businesses is extremely high. Entrepreneur.com rates people’s chances of surviving in business beyond 5 years at 50/50, while the chances of failure after 10 years are 70%. With that in mind, here are the top 13 reasons why businesses are less successful than they might otherwise be.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 23, 2024

Rebecca Tushnet and I are pleased to announce the seventh edition of our casebook, Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials. We also have two online-only chapters on housing discrimination (Chapter 20) and political advertising (Chapter 21), both also freely downloadable. Price: $12 * Kindle.

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IPilogue

MARCH 22, 2023

Their primary business is online counseling and therapy provided online through web-based interaction and phone/text communication with professional counselors. million – to customers whose health data was compromised.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The brands of many professional online gamers have millions of followers and huge profits from endorsements, advertising, merchandise, and more, yet many of them are not protected. Erik provides some trademark tips and guidance for the eSports industry that is applicable to other brand owners, influences, and businesses as well.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Trademarks are very important business assets because they distinguish products and embody reputation. The judgment made budget retailers realize the price they must pay for imitating established brands and stressed the virtue of originality in design, even within the lower end of the market. [3] Dongre and Ors. V Whirlpool Co.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2021

Most pirate sites and apps won’t survive without advertising revenue. This is why the advertising industry is seen as an important partner to combat piracy. The overall conclusion is that there’s still plenty of advertising revenue going around in pirate circles. Major Brands Fund Pirates.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Perhaps you only have one core trademark or perhaps you’re building a portfolio and helping create an entire synthesized brand. Some of these might not apply to your type of business, but I’m certain that there are a least a dozen or two that might apply to your business. Also common are temporary tattoos.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Music companies are increasingly targeting businesses who use their music on social media. Here's what you need to know. The post The Battle Over Music in Social Media Videos appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Reason Behind This Evolutionary Development Brand and companies have made it a trend to evolve from time to time creating variants over their original/ main or core mark. It strengthens brand awareness, builds a better rapport, and a more intimate Business-to-consumer relation which builds trust and faith in their product.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Fifteen years ago, courts generally avoided categorical pronouncements about the legitimacy of competitive keyword advertising. The message from the Second Circuit is plain: stop bringing competitive keyword advertising cases. This ruling doesn’t address the scenario where the advertiser’s ad copy references the trademark.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Keen to attract eyeballs wherever they might be, many of the world’s biggest brands exchanged cold hard cash for an appearance on prominent pirate portals. has performed well, on Wednesday it announced Project Brand Integrity 2.0. still aims to defund pirate sites and protect advertisers from undesirable associations.

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WIPO Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As the value of intangible assets rises, brands can inspire meaningful connections with a broader range of consumers and boost business growth by introducing diversity, inclusion and equity into their advertising campaigns.

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Heard of the climate activists defacing advertisements, billboards and bus shelters? Brandalism is a recent anti-advertising movement which uses a brand’s own assets and marketing channels against the brand itself, through replacing legitimate advertisements with spoofs and parodies (known as “subvertising”).

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Hiker has been in the business of designing and manufacturing customizable trailers for over a decade, earning a reputation for quality and durability. These marks have been featured in advertising, on product labels, and on apparel, contributing to Hiker’s brand recognition. Continue reading

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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. The dispute turned on what a “brand” is; Zesty Paws argued that Nutramax was not a brand, but Cosequin etc. Nutramax Labs.,

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This case highlights the intersection of trademark law and e-commerce regulation, raising questions about the accountability of online marketplaces in protecting brand integrity. of facilitating the sale of counterfeit BHPC products, tarnishing the brands image and causing substantial financial loss. and Amazon Seller Services Pvt.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The court says that Amazon “easily satisfies” this factor: Plaintiff’s claims are all based on the theory that Defendants ‘continue to allow unlawful sellers to maintain their accounts’ and ‘permit them to advertise’ on Defendants’ website. This argument has failed so many times. Google opinion.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

“[N]o legacy is so rich as honesty” 1 might fairly summarize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s theme to the advertising industry for 2023, as gleaned from the National Advertising Division (NAD) 2022 Annual Report. What Privacy-Related Claims Does Your Company Make?

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 31, 2023

Recently, there has been an increase in the number of advertisements on social media for perfumes that offer the same fragrance as a luxury one at a reasonably affordable rate. If you have come across such ads and have wondered whether such use of a mark infringes the mark of the luxury brand, then you are not alone.

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Olartemoure Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

the Super Bowl moves billions of dollars, mainly through advertising. The National Football League (NFL) , organizers of the event, have created and grown the brand of the Super Bowl to what it is today. Arguably the most important sports event in the U.S.A., THE SUPER BOWL TRADEMARK in 1969 In 1969, the NFL trademarked “Super Bowl”.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Bogus DMCA takedown notices are nothing new, but the rise of organized groups using malicious DMCA notices as a business tool has been apparent in recent years. Defendants’ illegal, fraudulent scheme harms consumers, third-party businesses, and Google; stifles competition; and threatens to tarnish Google’s trusted brand.”

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The MPA has been conducting discovery against entities doing business with PrimeWire to establish the identity of its operator and any profits attributable to copyright infringement. Arm’s Length Advertising. And another from 2016 that featured a piracy ‘brand’ with an even bigger profile. KickassTorrents.

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 9, 2022

Non-traditional trademarks are those things that indicate the source of a brand, but are not brand names, logos, or slogans. But, for the vast majority of businesses over time, they traditionally haven’t had a lot of need to protect non-traditional trademarks. Uniforms can be protected. That’s a registered trademark.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The court says that trademark law: permits the use of trade names as long as referencing other brand names does not confuse consumers and is not deceptive. More Posts About Keyword Advertising. Competitive Keyword Advertising Claim Fails–Reflex Media v. However, Edible invoked theft law and disavowed consumer confusion.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

trademark protects names, slogans and other things that identify a specific business, product or service. Homemade costumes rarely run into any issues (no matter how elaborate) as both rightsholders and the law are focused on business uses. They are part fashion, part artwork, part branding and part character. Bottom Line.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 20, 2022

When a lawsuit directly attacks a site’s ability to operate using specific domains or branding, for example, the ‘hydra effect’ comes into play. It has served subpoenas on third parties to hand over information about PrimeWire’s business dealings, but more time is needed.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 24, 2024

When advertisers use the Olympics brand without authorization, the USOC views this as a loss of sponsorship dollars. The Olympics benefits from extra special trademark protection here in the United States.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In pirate streaming, in part due to the way sites tend to copy each other’s branding, obvious long-standing players are less easy to identify. However, one platform that has stood the test of time is PrimeWire, which in one form or another has been around for perhaps eight years – even longer if its previous branding 1channel.ch

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 5, 2022

In the market, a trademark performs the following four functions: Identifying the goods/services and their source of origin; Guaranteeing the quality of goods/services; Promoting and advertising the goods/services; and. Creating a brand image for the goods/services in the minds of the public at large. Trademark Search.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 5, 2023

Heard of the climate activists defacing advertisements, billboards and bus shelters? Brandalism is a recent anti-advertising movement which uses a brand’s own assets and marketing channels against the brand itself, through replacing legitimate advertisements with spoofs and parodies (known as “subvertising”).

Brands 52

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The IWL is shared among brands, advertising companies, agencies and affiliates, who are informed that responsible companies boycott pirate sites because it a) protects their image and b) starves pirate sites of much-needed cash. Total number of brands and total number of advert intermediaries.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 18, 2024

Giselle asked for £50k and help with scaling-up her business Acu Seeds , in exchange for a 10% share in the business. Giselle told the Dragons about her inspirational story that led to starting her own business. Soon after this she fell pregnant, and it was whilst on maternity leave that she set up her business, Acu Seeds.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2023

After becoming the official sponsor of the Afghan cricket team during Asia Cup 2022, PikaShow was able to advertise its pirate streaming app via legal TV broadcasts watched by millions of people. Through its team sponsorship deal, PikaShow was able to advertise its pirate services on Star India’s official TV broadcasts of Asia Cup 2022.

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Advertising Advertising Reporting Copyright 143

43(B)log

JULY 23, 2024

Eric Goldman and I are pleased to announce the seventh edition of our casebook, Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials. We also have two online-only chapters on housing discrimination (Chapter 20) and political advertising (Chapter 21), both also freely downloadable. Price: $12 * Kindle. Price: $30 + shipping and tax.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

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. brewer works only with Keurig brand or licensed pods) but some did not (e.g., I prefer the taste of Keurig or Keurig-licensed brands.).

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