TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2022

While not all VPN services are bad apples, VeePN is allegedly using pirates’ fear of getting caught as a marketing strategy. These VPN providers emphasize in advertisements that they delete their end users’ log access records so their identities will never be disclosed to copyright owners or law enforcement.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2025

In January, the UK’s digital markets competition regime went into effect. This procedure allows the Government’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to regulate dominant tech firms, ensuring fair competition and consumer protection. Instead, the rightsholders focus on Google search advertisements.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 2, 2025

Anyone developing or marketing an innovative product will want to ensure that they do not infringe existing intellectual property rights. Ortovox Sportartikel GmbH v. Mammut Sports Group AG/GmbH (UPC_CFI_16/2024), Dsseldorf Local Division (January 14, 2025) ORD_63219/2024.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Skillz sued its competitor Papaya, alleging false advertising under federal and state law. Skillz allegedly markets its games as being uniquely fair and trustworthy with a badge indicating it is Committed to Fair Play and a claim that it will [m]atch [users] with real players of equal skill in its games. Skillz Platform Inc.

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Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit is set to consider the use of terms like “patented,” “proprietary,” and “exclusive” in commercial advertising can be actionable under § 43(a)(1)(B) of the Lanham Act when their use is not entirely accurate. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions. ” Dawgs brief.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

With this Louis Vuitton seems to have struck a jackpot as it managed to restrain Haute24 from selling its products in a copyright dispute over its advertisement material. Haute24 is an online e-commerce platform whose stated aim is to make luxury apparel from the US and Europe affordable for the Indian market (see here ).

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Ninth Circuit has held: “[i]n some cases, the threat of future harm may be the consumer’s plausible allegations that she will be unable to rely on the product’s advertising or labeling in the future, and so will not purchase the product although she would like to.”

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

The FTC recently made changes to its guide concerning the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising. Scott Hervey and Jessica Marlow discuss these changes and their expected impact on the influencer marketing industry in this episode of The Briefing.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 12, 2021

3: Advertising Fuels $1.34 Billion Illegal Piracy Market, Report by Digital Citizens Alliance and White Bullet Finds. billion annually through advertising. billion annually through advertising. That money is divided between pirate websites, which bring in an estimated $1.08

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2025

The United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) published its annual Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets a few hours ago. Perhaps it will result in another ‘positive development’, which the USTR can highlight in next year’s version of the notorious markets report. The full overview also includes offline markets.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Image from here Not Everyone’s Cup of “Use” – The Changing Dynamics of “Trademark Use” and “Infringement” in Internet Advertising Nivrati Gupta “New technologies give us new opportunities, but they all raise the question: How do old, familiar laws apply?” Views expressed here are those of the author’s alone.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The lawsuit claims that the song is a valuable licensing asset and notes that it has appeared in several films, TV shows and advertisements. Finally today, Max Slater-Robins at Techradar reports that the United States has added both AliExpress and WeChat to its list of notorious markets for copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

StreamSafely: How it All Began The people who came up with the StreamSafely campaign and still run it today are collectively known as Ctam Cable Marketing Association Inc. , As the current member list shows, cable marketing has considerable scope. or CTAM for short. ” Under the heading The Cable Industry v.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Mahindra, Tanishka Goswami analyzes the Court’s findings on the importance of house marks in infringement assessment, and the nature of the relevant market. Explaining the recent Delhi High Court decision in Gensol v. Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP. Her previous posts can be found here. 3000 crores.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 14, 2024

But when advertising or marketing materials overstate the scope of patent or other IP rights, they may create the risk of a false advertising claim. Patented technologies or features can be valuable selling points, setting your products apart from the competition. By: Fenwick & West LLP

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 16, 2024

Department of Justice's (DOJ) case challenging Google's alleged dominance in online search markets. Mehta of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued his much anticipated and long-awaited opinion in the U.S. By: White & Case LLP

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

” While countries like China focus on the “first to file” rule, India gives more importance to those who first use a trademark in the market. Because the big company has more resources for marketing and advertising, it overwhelms the smaller business’s brand identity. trademark law. Banff, Ltd.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The suspects used a well-known website operated by an individual to publish articles and provide download links, generating advertising revenue through click-through rates.” . “After installation, users could switch the software to pirated video mode by entering specific keywords or commands.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2023

. “Digital piracy causes several damages to the market and the entertainment industry is especially affected by it,” the translation reads. For example, there is an impact on the attractiveness of audiovisual products for the advertising market,” it reads. So what can Globo staff do to help?

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2025

Sabotage of legitimate equipment and threats against engineers sent to repair it, allows illegal equipment operated by notorious criminal groups to take over local markets. Expansion beyond pirate TV into other commodity markets is common too.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

2022-1194, 2022-1208, and 2022-1246 (December 7, 2023) , the Federal Circuit held that generic pharmaceutical companies may continue to use skinny labels to avoid infringement of method of treatment claims as long as they do not engage in advertising or promotional activities that encourage infringement of the patents. Lupin Ltd., Patent Nos.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 24, 2025

A new report from Russian cybersecurity firm F6 (previously Group-IB) provides an overview of the local pirate CDN market and presents some interesting findings. One Player Dominates the Market F6 analysts say they investigated 1,400 pirate sites to determine which CDNs are most popular in Russia.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Washington’s Fair Campaign Practices Act “requires Meta to maintain certain records of the political advertisements it hosts on its platforms and, when requested, to permit inspection of, or to disclose, such records to those seeking such information.” The state can extract this information from political advertisers.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

APRIL 28, 2025

The company also says Premiers marketing misleads consumers and healthcare providers into believing these altered products are authentic, when they are not. Premiers use of Lillys trademarks in advertisements is also a violation of intellectual property laws , according to the lawsuit. Continue reading

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TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2022

For many image conscious consumer-orientated businesses, a key to commercial success lies in carefully calibrated branding and marketing. Thousands of pirate sites rely on advertising to generate revenue but entertainment companies are keen to highlight the downsides of dealing with them. GOAL… sponsored by 1XBET.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

3, 2025) Metrasens and plaintiff KDI compete in the market for ferromagnetic detectors, used to detect magnetic items (such as iron) on a persons body or clothing before the person enters a room containing an MRI scanner. But the court disagreed because it read the precedent to require literal falsity, bad faith, and comparative advertising.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

With more than a billion impressions per month and over 30,000 active advertisers, PropellerAds is a serious player in the online advertising industry. The Cyprus-based company works with advertisers and publishers from all over the world and while many are legitimate companies, Hollywood believes there are some bad apples too.

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The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2025

Nevertheless, the Board highlighted that some of these materials could only serve as secondary evidence that can support the primary evidence, namely surveys, market studies, and statements from professional bodies or specialised public. This was mainly due to the very narrow scope of the primary evidence.

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

What they have in common is the direct undertaking of those acts, that is – in the words of the CJEU – a comportement actif , which consists of affixing the sign, advertising under it, etc.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2024

As MPA member Sony attracts attention for its continued expansion into both the manga and anime markets, including its recent interest in the acquisition of publishing giant Kadokawa, synergies between the companies will likely be in focus as the weeks unfold.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2025

Moss says that Zonatmo is the latest new domain for a platform called Tu Manga Online, a manga content directory aimed at the Spanish-speaking market. These sites are often able, for at least a short time, to monetize using CPM based ad products [advertisers pay a fixed rate per thousand impressions] such as display / video / audio ads.”

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43(B)log

JANUARY 22, 2025

These garbage disposals tend to match the same horsepower advertised by InSinkErator on its disposals, but at a cheaper price. This signals that horsepower is an importantif not primarydistinction used by retailers to market to consumers. That bolstered the common sense impression that more horsepower means more efficiency.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Advertised as a “top notch” service, in which Moy had invested considerable sums of money obtaining servers and streams, subscriptions were sold both in bulk to a network of resellers or on a singular basis direct to consumers.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In particular, this may be the case where an online marketplace displays its own logo on the advertisements of third-party sellers and it carries out the storage and shipping of the third party goods in question. For example, how is the operator displaying its advertisements (e.g., storing and shipping their products)?

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2025

. “The proliferation of matches and competition from other audiovisual content, both sporting and non-sporting, creates an overabundance of content that challenges the balance of the football audiovisual exploitation rights market.” ” The proposals run deep and even if the bill passes, pushback seems almost inevitable.

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The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2022

The non-fungible part means that it is something that has unique value based on the buyer’s sentiment and/or market dynamics. In practice, what this means is that a whole new market has been opened-up as NFTs have provided a system that has enabled the sale of digital items by transforming them into collectables, such as a tweet.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the United States, the formation of the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) in 2015 saw advertisers and advertising agencies come together to clean up the system and prevent ad revenue from reaching pirate sites. still aims to defund pirate sites and protect advertisers from undesirable associations.

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