IP Tech Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

The recently published Draft Amendment to the Chinese Trademark Law is proposing the introduction of important changes to the current trademark system in China. The draft Article 18 Trademark Law correctly removes the distinction between registered and unregistered well-known marks. For example, the actual art.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 17, 2023

The recently published Draft Amendment to the Chinese Trademark Law is proposing the introduction of important changes to the current trademark system in China. The draft Article 18 Trademark Law correctly removes the distinction between registered and unregistered well-known marks. For example, the actual art.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

.” In other words, they sought to establish (using centuries-old chattel-based theft doctrines rather than trademark law) that a trademark owner has the unrestricted right to shut down anyone using their trademarks, even if no consumers are harmed. to see if it could find some soft spot in Georgia state law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2024

This case hit my alerts because of its discussion about keyword advertising, but first, I have to digest how the court got there. We usually get ours at the local farmers market.] The court said that the trademark owner had been using the trademark since 1985 and registered the trademark in 2006. ” Say what?

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Above the Fold

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

What will be the most creative advertising tagline? Will any of your old favorite marketing campaigns be brought back? How many advertising controversies will emerge? Can any one commercial eclipse the advertising power of Taylor Swift being in attendance? Which celebrities will be featured?

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

When used strategically, social media becomes one of the most powerful tools of digital marketing. With the evolution of social media, the concept of moment marketing has also become increasingly common. But what exactly is moment marketing? However, the concept of moment marketing is not new.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The court says “Because Walmart does not pay search engines to return organic search results or index webpages, it does not “use” the marks in connection with the sale or advertisement of goods.” “Walmart contends that the purchase of these Google advertisements does not constitute a “use” of Plaintiff’s Marks. .”

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Was this commercial advertising or promotion? Elysium argued that Right of Assembly was “a marketing website for Tru Niagen for which ChromaDex pays commissions to Shelly Albaum for Tru Niagen customers referred through the website.” Thus, any false advertising claim would lie against Albaum, not [directly] against ChromaDex.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

What will be the most creative advertising tagline? Will any of your old favorite marketing campaigns be brought back? How many advertising controversies will emerge? Can any one commercial eclipse the advertising power of Taylor Swift being in attendance? Which celebrities will be featured?

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2021

It is difficult to remember a time when keyword advertising did not dominate the internet. Most search engines, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, maintain keyword advertising programs which allow advertisers to bid on search terms and keywords that drive customers searching for a particular product or service to their website.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 22, 2023

This case involves two rival personal injury law firms in Arizona, one of which engaged in competitive keyword advertising against the other. Nor can it be said to show that Defendants’ marketing strategy made confusion likely. Bye, Goff * Yet More Evidence That Keyword Advertising Lawsuits Are Stupid–Porta-Fab v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2023

Kudos to Nicolet Law for surviving the motion to dismiss, but I’m wondering if it will ultimately regret filing this lawsuit–either because its trademark gets busted or because it made a federal case out of nothing. For more background on competitive keyword advertising by lawyers, see this article. LoanStreet v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

Any surviving services may need to be structured as marketing agencies that push all of the legal risk to the users and third-party vendors. If not, the print-on-demand industry may not be commercially viable under prevailing law. While Sunfrog won this battle, it lost the war because it’s exited the market.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

[These are my rough-draft talk notes from a recent workshop of trademark law professors.] The SAD Scheme involves a trademark owner suing dozens/hundreds of defendants using a sealed complaint, getting an ex parte TRO, and then having the online marketplaces freeze the defendants’ accounts and money.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is a case involving a trademark owner and a competitive keyword advertiser. The trademark owner memorably (and ridiculously) characterized the rival as engaging in “keyword conquesting,” a term I encourage you never to use. The court already sent that trademark claim to the jury ( my blog post on that ruling ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This case involves Jim Adler, a/k/a the “Texas Hammer,” a Texas lawyer who has spent $100M+ on advertising to build his brand. The defendants bought competitive keyword ads on Adler’s trademarks, which Adler objected to. For background on the legal battles over keyword advertising by lawyers, see this article.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

However, “[b]ecause meta tags direct internet traffic and are invisible to the internet user (absent the user taking additional steps), meta tags are similar to keyword advertising” (citing a non-precedential metatags opinion from 20 years ago). What are “marketing rights”??? Distraction is insufficient.

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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. Image from here Smells like Luxury, Does it cost a Trademark Battle? We will explore the relevance of this further ahead in this post.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 26, 2022

I’ve often wondered about the conversations that take place between trademark owner and counsel before filing a keyword advertising lawsuit. You can have a court declare your trademarks weak or invalid so they are less valuable than when you started. More Posts About Keyword Advertising. * Should we say ?

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The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2023

Public and external use Regarding the first ground, Hecht submitted that: According to Paragraph 73 of the Medicinal Products Act (AMG), medicinal products can only be imported and placed on the market in Germany by pharmacies and such use can thus only be proven by adducing corresponding invoices from pharmacies. Not a trademark?

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

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] The rulings, in turn, drove home that mere association is not sufficient to support a finding of trademark infringement or dilution.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

This week, another court added to 1-800 Contacts’ smouldering pile of trademark jurisprudence and granted a judgment on the pleadings (Rule 12(c)) dismissing 1-800 Contacts’ competitive keyword advertising lawsuit against its rival Warby Parker. More Posts About Keyword Advertising. Keyword Ads. Proximity of goods.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2022

More Posts About Keyword Advertising. Google. * Competitive Keyword Advertising Claim Fails–Reflex Media v. lululemon. * Ohio Bans Competitive Keyword Advertising by Lawyers. * Want to Engage in Anti-Competitive Trademark Bullying? Google. * Competitive Keyword Advertising Still Isn’t Trademark Infringement, Unless….

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Today, several generic terms that we use, such as ‘escalator,’ ‘xerox,’ ‘cellophane,’ sound common but were once protected as trademarks. Simply put, trademark genericization is the death of the mark as it no longer acts as a source indicator of the brand owner.

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Garrigues Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

regarding the use of the ZARA trademark. We will examine the impact of the ruling in cases involving the use of third-party trademarks. Buongiorno was an internet and mobile telephone network provider that, in 2010, launched an advertising campaign for a paid subscription to a messaging service for receiving content via SMS.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 6, 2023

In layman, language trademark is a sign that assists distinguish the product of a particular firm from the products of other firms of similar nature. The upsurge of social media apps and their intervention in our lives have completely changed the marketing game for every business organization. Image Sources : Shutterstock].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

.” With respect to policy, the majority goes property-absolutist: “Because state property rights can facilitate market exchange, interpreting the § 230(e)(2) limitation to include state intellectual property laws tracks Congress’s pro-free-market goal.” I even agree with the latter point!) Facebook , Nos.

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Chicago IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Award honors those who have made a significant creative contribution in one or more of the following substantive areas of intellectual property law: Patent Law: An invention or group of inventions having technological significance and an important social and economic impact, resulting in one or more U.S.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This indicates a vast consumer base and a thriving market for goods and services in India, providing ample opportunities for manufacturers and producers to introduce their products. In recent years, this economic potential has attracted global brands to expand into the Indian market.

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SpicyIP

MAY 15, 2024

The same could be said about Google’s Ads program wherein it seems to have successfully charted through the trademark laws to smoothly bypass them in allowing firms to bid for their competitor’s trademark as a keyword for their advertisement.

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IPilogue

MARCH 6, 2023

While Louboutin’s products retail for JPY80,000 ($613) and over and fall within the luxury brand market, Eizo’s shoes occupy the affordable or no-name brand markets, with an average retail price of JPY17,000 ($130). The court also took issue with Louboutin’s market research. 2015-29921 ).

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43(B)log

APRIL 29, 2022

Hawrych’s name, likeness, and trademark (‘Hawrych MD’) in various advertisements.” It was not enough to allege that the marketing materials were “misleading as to his present involvement.” Thus, the false advertising claim would be dismissed. The allegations related to the use of “M.D.” Hawrych” and “Dr.

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The TTABlog

APRIL 17, 2024

Citing Wal-Mart , the court observed that trademark law does not protect "product designs that lack distinctive meaning as a source identifier." That same principle applies to trademark registration. Furthermore, the survey questions "nudged" the recipients to name only a single company associated with the boot.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Trademark Infringement Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a trademark that is identical or similar to a registered trademark, without the permission of the trademark owner.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To answer that and other questions about Halloween costumes, we have to step back and look at how copyright and trademark law apply to costumes. Simply owning a costume doesn’t mean that you own the copyright to the character or the trademark to their name and appearance. Copyright and Halloween Costumes.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Award honors those who have made a significant creative contribution in one or more of the following substantive areas of intellectual property law: Patent Law: An invention or group of inventions having technological significance and an important social and economic impact, resulting in one or more U.S.

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