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IPSC Breakout 3: Trademark and Unfair Competition

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Mary Catherine Amerine, Reasonably Careless Consumers in False Advertising and Trademark Consumers can devote much more (or less) time to a decision than seems rational for the amount of risk/benefit in their lives. Court expects consumers to be reasonably prudent in both TM and false advertising. Wasn’t clear.

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TIL: “Texas Tamale” Is an Enforceable Trademark–Texas Tamale v. CPUSA2

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This case hit my alerts because of its discussion about keyword advertising, but first, I have to digest how the court got there. ” But the trademark registration was over 5 years old, so it had become “incontestable.” ” That prompted this litigation. ” The right answer should be “no one.”

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using an ITU to get non-Amazon platforms to take down competitors

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Fraud [not, apparently, pled as fraud on the PTO but argued that way]: “Fraud in procuring a mark occurs when an applicant knowingly makes false, material representations of fact in connection with an application.” “[T]he burden of proving that a party fraudulently procured a trademark registration is heavy.”

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Top Trademark Trends of 2022

Erik K Pelton

And the number of active trademark registrations in the USPTO database is larger than ever. Additionally, since late December 2021, when new procedures went into effect, the USPTO has received around 100 expungement petitions and about 100 re-examination petitions to get rid of registrations for marks that are allegedly not in use.

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TM and takings claims against Puerto Rico fail: license plates/tags aren't use in commerce

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22, 2023) Plaintiffs own Roberto Clemente’s IP rights and a registration for ROBERTO CLEMENTE for “figurines, statues and statuettes made of non-precious metal; beer cans made of non-precious metal sold empty.” (The The district court doesn’t appear to care about what the registration is for; I had to look it up.)

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Court Denies Injunction in Competitive Keyword Ad Lawsuit–Nursing CE Central v. Colibri

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is a competitive keyword advertising lawsuit. The plaintiff has a trademark registration for the “Nursing CE Central” mark for providing continuing education for nurses. This is fine, but it deviates from courts’ efforts over the years to come up with multi-factor variations specific to keyword advertising.

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Imputing Bad Faith in Trademark Infringement Disputes: Analysing DHC Nova v. Novya Judgement

SpicyIP

Image from here In the case of Sterling Agro Industries Limited vs ASR Trading Company , the Delhi High Court while dealing with a trademark infringement suit, imputed mala fide intention to ASR Trading’s (the Defendant) act of applying for a trademark registration. His previous posts can be accessed here.