IP Law 360

JANUARY 5, 2023

The holder of the trademark on Puff Labs Stix nicotine vapes is suing rivals in California federal court claiming they are infringing on its Puff brand marks and confusing consumers, adding that the competitors have sent it meritless cease-and-desist letters.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2021

The harm caused to brands by counterfeiting goes far beyond loss of sales or profits. Fake goods jeopardize public health and safety when a brand’s trademark is applied to a sub-standard and potentially harmful product. This is especially hazardous for counterfeit medical items, mechanical parts, and food products, to name a few.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A California federal judge has determined that a Los Angeles sake brand can't litigate a trademark dispute in the Golden State with a similarly named wine store in Brooklyn, saying a cease and desist letter wasn't enough to establish jurisdiction.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Midfield – Both attacking and defensive for protection when needed: Issuing ‘cease and desist’ letters when infringements occur. Offense – goal scoring and attacking: litigating as needed to protect the brand. Defense – Common law rights acquired by use of the mark.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Step 2: Enroll in Amazon Brand Registry Consider enrolling in Amazon Brand Registry if your trademark covers goods that can be sold on the e-commerce platform. Should you send a trademark cease-and-desist letter? Sending a trademark infringement cease-and-desist letter is a serious matter.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2022

Pirates Expolit Payment Processor Branding. According to AAPA, among other things the inclusion of payment processor logos on payment portals gives them an air of legitimacy while damaging the processors’ brands. PayPal is committed to finding a workable solution to combat piracy’s impact on the industry and on their brand.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 6, 2024

The following is an edited transcript of my book video Building a Bold Brand Chapter 6: Why Apply to Register Trademark registration with the USPTO has tremendous value. Appearing in the USPTO’s online database.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

JULY 11, 2024

I think you would agree with me that protecting a brand has become increasingly difficult in this digital era, where originality is becoming a thing of the past. So, how do you approach this issue when your brand is caught in the middle of it?

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Trademark infringement is the nightmare that keeps big brands up at night. Imagine you’ve conjured up the hottest brand on the market – “Crispy Crunch Delights” , complete with a jazzy logo. ” They are selling what you sell, they are reaping the benefits of your brand, without doing any of the hard work. .”

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

The growth of internet and internet related facilities have made brands shift a major part of their business online, some generating the entirety of their income through online sales. In this blog, we will see brands and trademarks on the internet and how to protect them from infringement. Protecting brands.

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Olartemoure Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The National Football League (NFL) , organizers of the event, have created and grown the brand of the Super Bowl to what it is today. Even small businesses that have used “Super Bowl” to advertise watch-parties, have received cease and desist letters from NFL lawyers. In 1969, the NFL trademarked “Super Bowl”.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 16, 2023

You make moves to expand your market, and suddenly you get a cease-and-desist letter from another business that has better rights to the trademark. Loss of Brand Equity: Rebranding means letting go of the brand equity that the previous brand had built over time.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 24, 2023

The NCAA takes a proactive approach to protecting its intellectual property, often sending cease-and-desist letters to those it believes are infringing on its rights. From trademarks to copyrights, the NCAA is diligent in protecting its rights and the value of its brand.

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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

I’ve made a career here of tut-tutting the impolitic and brand-negating utterance of baseless cease and desist and other threatening letters based on IP infringement, including this recent post about. The post The unbearable dumbness of threatening appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Introduction Registration of a trademark is an important step toward building a brand on solid ground. Today, in a competitive marketplace, the difference between a successful strategy for the long-run has to do with brand identity. That should represent your brand and not explain it.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

APRIL 1, 2024

The jury’s March 2024 verdict found inTech Trailers guilty of willfully infringing on Forest River’s trademarks, specifically those associated with its popular Della Terra brand and distinctive mountain design. Forest River promptly issued a cease and desist demand to inTech upon discovering the infringement.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This is generally done by giant corporations and brand names to survive the competition and swallow the small businesses for gains. The modus operandi of bullying and legal threats which are baseless by large entities gets initiated by serving a cease and desist notice which contains threats of instituting a trademark infringement suit.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Through the court, RTI wants Cloudflare to cease providing its services to Guardaserie and block all associated domain names. A random Guardaserie domain RTI informed the court that Cloudflare took no action in response to a cease and desist letter it sent earlier this year. .

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azrights

MARCH 23, 2022

So, he was in disbelief when he received a cease and desist letter from lawyers acting for the high end China Tang at the Dorchester Hotel in Mayfair whose rights to use the name stemmed from a figurative trademark in class 43 (restaurant services, catering services, cafes, cafeterias, and self-service restaurants) registered in 2005.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 9, 2021

Then they received a cease-and-desist letter: another company had already registered the identical brand name for the identical services. So they not only had an unprotected trademark, they had skipped some critical steps in the brand protection process. Why did you have to change it? Are they going to be confused?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Still fresh after obtaining a judgment worth more than half a billion dollars against an IPTV seller in May, DISH quickly filed a new lawsuit against the alleged operators of PrimeStreams, one of the most recognizable brands in the market. The complaint alleges that through his KTV brand, Everly was one such reseller.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The defendant argued that this twenty-word installation instruction infringed its copyright in a similar installation instruction, supplied with the defendant’s similar system: “ 50% of the estimated number of [brand] hooks are mounted on each roof tile, from below and upwards along the roof.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Eventually, the RIAA itself got involved, sending a cease and desist letter to Hitpiece on February 4. The same day that the RIAA sent its cease and deist letter to Hitpiece, Nike filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against reseller StockX over Nike-themed NFTs.

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Erik K Pelton

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The following is an excerpt from my book, Building a Bold Brand. show both employees and customers the brand’s value and. show both employees and customers the brand’s value and. the brand is taken seriously and has USPTO legal protections. If someone infringes the trademark, a “cease and desist” letter.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Danielle Bernstein is a 28-year-old New York City influencer and founder of the brand We Wore What (“WWW”). They first called out Bernstein on their Instagram stories and privately sent her and We Wore What a cease and desist letter in August 2020. How does an influencer and fashion designer become so despised?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In its Discord channel, the site mentions that it received cease and desist notices from City of London Police and the MPA. While this team is not likely to use the same brand in the future, others might still hijack it to lure former users. Switching to more new domains including braflix.ru No further details were mentioned.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In a case involving a patent for herbicide compositions, the UPC Munich Local Division was asked to consider whether the alleged infringer's marketing of a product within the Contracting Member States under the same brand name as a clearly infringing product sold outside the Member States created a risk of first (or imminent) infringement.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 9, 2023

billion users overall and around 120 million users active daily, YouTube is an entertainment powerhouse and a globally-recognized brand. With an estimated 2.5 Premium products aside, YouTube is free to use. But with around a billion hours of content consumed every day, YouTube has to find ways to make that pay. You know what you have to do.”

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 19, 2021

In fact, I’m certain that happens every single day to thousands of brands when people are coming up with names or clearing names and we never hear about them. It makes for a more compelling cease and desist letter. So, once it’s registered, the registration is literally working for the owner 24/7.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The following is an excerpt from my book, Building a Bold Brand. Believe it or not, I even had to face changing my brand name early on as a result of receiving a cease and desist letter! Small businesses are just as capable of creating and building great brands as big businesses are. Celebrity endorsements.

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Kashishipr

MAY 4, 2022

Additionally, they help the customers distinguish between brands and understand the quality of the products they buy. Trademarks also carry all the image and reputation a brand builds over the years. It has already knocked out some widely recognized brands in the past, including Cellophane, Asprin, and Escalator.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Summer Olympics got me thinking about what it would take for a decathlon of trademark protection: to be well-rounded and ensure that a brand, a trademark, has covered all the angles and excels at everything. Research and review international protections as needed as your brand grows. Choose a creative name.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 9, 2022

In their statement, Julian Zehetmayer said, “We’ve obviously got this great mainstream brand that everybody’s nostalgic about. The company ceased operations after the RIAA sent them a cease and desist letter. We thought we needed to build a real mainstream user experience as well.”

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Introduction A trademark is a symbol that differentiates one’s brand from another. How to prevent: One should select a unique/distinctive mark that represents your brand. From there it is important to actively monitor and enforce your legal rights in order for a brand owner not to lose control of the strength of its mark.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

An Atlanta-based Tex-Mex restaurant chain has sued an Ohio food truck in federal court to make it stop using the name Twisted Taco on branding and social media, alleging the small business has infringed its trademark for years and ignored cease-and-desist letters.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 30, 2022

International Trade Commission has decided to bar imports of certain brands of Chinese portable car jump-starters, with a minority of the commission agreeing with arguments from an Ohio parts maker that also sought a cease-and-desist order against the no-show infringers. A split U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The plaintiff argued that Infosy’s brand value in this trademark could mislead consumers into presuming a connection between the two companies. This is the main problem with Infosys Limited’s reputation and brand value. Increase the mark link with Infosys.

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