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Lower Price Alternative? Comparative Advertising and Trademark Infringement

IPilogue

Comparative advertising is an effective marketing technique, in which a company’s product or service is compared to its competitor’s. Despite these advantages, comparative advertising is a dangerous field to navigate from a legal perspective. Tianchu Gao is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. .

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Sounds, Colors, Scents, and Other Nontraditional Trademarks

Erik K Pelton

Examples of those interiors are the Apple Store has a registration for the layout of the store, and Chipotle has a registration for the common design themes that you’ll find in nearly every Chipotle. A famous example of this is the pin stripes of the New York Yankees are a registered trademark. Colors can be registered.

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UCL claim could be based on lost opportunity to register trademark

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The highway protocol allegedly suffered from performance issues and never met the design requirements that Zamfir had previously advertised when working with CasperLabs on the product, thus allegedly harming his reputation. Those injuries didn’t come from the alleged infringement.

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Trademark protection for colors: T-Mobile Magenta

Erik K Pelton

Non-traditional trademarks include sounds, sense, motions, lighting, colors, and more. Essentially, things that are not made up of logo designs or words. I want to focus on color trademarks. The brown color used by UPS is a registered trademark. For instance, the magenta of T-Mobile is a registered trademark.

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Good Meat is descriptive for sustainable meat-related services, plausibly deceptive for lab-grown meat

43(B)log

GMP owns two federally registered trademarks: the “GOOD MEAT” standard character mark and the “GOOD MEAT BREAKDOWN” design mark. The court denies a preliminary injunction on the trademark claims based on lack of likely success on the merits, but declines to dismiss either infringement or false advertising claims.

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calling an accepted Rule 68 offer a judgment of infringement could be defamatory

43(B)log

11, 2024) I have a long-running interest in Rule 68 offers of judgment, and this case involves an interaction with false advertising law! This judgment of infringement comes nearly one year to the day after Crocs filed lawsuits against 21 companies alleging infringement of its registered trademark rights in its clog designs. …

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Power of Proof: The Role of Documentary Evidence in Trademark Prosecution

Intepat

The Registrar of Trade Marks , further highlights the importance of documentary evidence in establishing the well-known status of a trademark. Therefore, the significance of such documentary evidence in the entire duration of trademark prosecution is specifically addressed and explained in this article.