Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Perhaps you only have one core trademark or perhaps you’re building a portfolio and helping create an entire synthesized brand. Finally, in internet keywords; on your website; in the coding to help attract traffic related to your brand. Those are 50 or more ways that you could use your trademark.

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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. Television advertising.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 27, 2024

With around 3 billion people tuning in to each Olympic Games, and Paralympic Games viewership on the rise, the Olympics are some of the most widely watched televised events in the world. Copyright and trademark protection plays a big – and often, unknown – role in what a viewer sees on TV.

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IPilogue

JULY 23, 2021

D isparaging Trademarks at a Time of Social & Racial Justice Movements ” by Brand & New. Brand & New is a podcast by the International Trademark Association. In particular, I enjoyed their conversation about the possibility of minority-owned brands reclaiming and trademarking offensive words or stereotypes. “D

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

One by one, domains previously controlled by the site – extreme-down.lol, extreme-down.video, extreme-down.tv, extreme-down.pro, and extreme-down.live – were transferred to a brand new owner. That library is now closed.” Extreme-Down’s operator was traced to Houmt Souk, Tunisia.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The latest episodes of the new Disney+ television series "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" shine a rare spotlight on trademark infringement, as a superpowered influencer takes the titular Marvel Comics hero to court for using the same name as a "She-Hulk" brand that she claims to own.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Back in September 2021, these companies along with Television Broadcasts Limited and TVBI Company Limited filed a new application at the Federal Court, seeking the blocking of more than 100 domains under Section 115A of the Copyright Act 1968. The aim, as always, is to slow down rampant movie and TV show piracy.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

They clarified the limits of exclusivity, especially for generic or descriptive terms, and protected established brands from dilution and consumer confusion. Judicial Support for Goodwill and Consumer Trust: Across various cases, courts prioritized protecting consumer trust and the goodwill associated with established brands.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Non-conventional or Non-Traditional trademarks such as sounds, color, shape, scent or any other motion marks have emerged as a new innovative tools widely being used in the todays changing and competitive market era that redefine how brands connect with the public at large.

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IP Law 360

MAY 23, 2022

A federal judge in Florida on Monday will allow Comcast Cable Communications LLC to argue before a jury that its Xfinity brand could have possibly designed around a patent that purports to cover the interactive programming guides at the very heart of Comcast's business, rejecting an online television streaming company's bid to block that argument.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

. “Tusa is the individual responsible for, and he directly operated, managed, and ultimately profited from, the willful infringement of Plaintiffs’ copyrights in their movies and television shows…through a string of unauthorized movie and television streaming services.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 13, 2022

Filed in a Florida court, the complaint alleged that the three men were back in the IPTV business, this time under the brands ExpediteTV, Mundo TV, and Must TV. In March 2022, DISH, Sling TV and NagraStar teamed up in a new lawsuit targeting former SetTV owners Jason LaBossiere, Sean Beaman, and Stefan Gollner.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The plaintiffs alleged that Nitro TV offered subscription packages consisting of thousands of live and title-curated television channels available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, throughout the United States and abroad. Judge Awards Studios $51.6

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Likelihood of Confusion

APRIL 13, 2023

Context: If you’re over 50, you can probably remember when television commercials were mainly 60 seconds or 30 seconds. Or at least trademark logos. There were exceptions. But the premise. The post Trademarks in the age of 140 characters or less appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 12, 2022

Disney is one of the best-known brands in the world and the owner of an impressive collection of movies and TV shows. New and old releases earn the company a healthy stream of revenue, both in movie theaters and through its own movie streaming service Disney+.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2024

Padilla’s Facebook posts emphasize that after the initial payment there are ‘no monthly fees’ (unlike legitimate pay-television services such as the services provided by Plaintiffs that charge a monthly subscription fee),” DISH notes.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 18, 2022

On the other, a good product coupled with brand awareness can lead to commercial success, at least until that profile attracts the wrong type of attention. As one of the most recognizable IPTV brands around, PrimeStreams appears to fall into the latter category. PrimeStreams Ignored Warning.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 23, 2023

“Illegal IPTV is the most serious threat to legal offerings of movies, series, television and sports broadcasts. Update: Additional research shows that hundreds of IPTV related domains/brands and IP-addresses have indeed gone dark. It involves tens of millions of euros in damages in the Netherlands alone.”

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Bear is a great television show about a restaurant—specifically building out a restaurant—and my family is in the restaurant business, so it hits close to home for me. The following is an edited transcript of my video Trademark Lessons from The Bear. Here’s a few trademark lessons that we can learn from The Bear.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 19, 2024

In the Scandinavian pirate market, Viking IPTV is a well-known brand and according to Rights Alliance, business appears to have been brisk. “A number of television companies are also awarded damages according to their claims, and in total the damages claims are over SEK 16 million [US$1,492,000].”

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Documents released by Swedish police linked the couple to IPTV brand Nordens Bästa IPTV (The Nordics’ Best IPTV). “It affects both the film and television industries as well as society at large. Pirate IPTV is a “Big Problem” in Sweden. This generates millions of kroner in revenue for criminals and organized crime.”

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2022

From its roots as Sky Television through its teenage years as BSkyB, Sky has battled everything from box and smartcard hacking through to smartcard blocking and smartcard emulation. Five months later, after a user called CucoTV switched to CucoTV2 and then to CucoappTV, a CucoTV-branded app appeared once again on Github.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In September 2021, a grand jury returned a 62-count indictment charging Bill Omar Carrasquillo with crimes related to his Gears-branded IPTV services.

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IPilogue

JULY 15, 2021

Beavan told Variety that Disney discussed co-branded products for Target and Singer Corporation as well as a possible fashion collection. Then, in May 2021, the fashion brand Rag & Bone advertised a new, officially-licensed Cruella -inspired collection—without Beavan’s knowledge or attribution. There are, however, some exceptions.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 18, 2021

After the original 10.6GB release, other EVO branded variants appeared online in smaller file sizes including 4.4GB and around 1.8GB. Frankly, to watch Dune on a television, the best way I can compare it is to drive a speedboat in your bathtub. From One Copy, Many Others Spawn. “The way it happened, I’m still not happy.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Film titles are customarily registered with trade associations like the Film and Television Producers Guild of India, the Indian Film and Television Producers Council, etc. According to this, the SB found the trademark eligible for protection as it suggested a ‘specific brand of romantic films.’ Lyca Productions v.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 31, 2021

The SportsBay domains currently link to the same web platform, which features artwork culled from the infamous Pirate Bay, although there appears to be no link to that site, branding aside. DRM Technologies Protect Sling’s Platform.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 29, 2022

A month later, DISH and NagraStar followed up with a new lawsuit claiming that former SetTV operators Jason LaBossiere, Sean Beaman, and Stefan Gollner had launched three new pirate IPTV services/brands. According to the complaint, ExpediteTV, Mundo TV, and Must TV offered DISH copyrighted content.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Forever IPTV provides access to thousands of on-demand movies and television shows, including content owned by Miramax. . “[Forever IPTV] is a wholesaler of pirate IPTV channels that offers to supply pirated channels to IPTV resellers. iStar is currently being sued by DISH in the US.

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

JULY 29, 2021

This year, “the most commercialised show on British television” allegedly netted more than £12 million in revenues before the first episode aired on 28 June. Each year, fashion brands such as Pretty Little Thing and Missguided compete for their clothing to be worn by the islanders on the show.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 29, 2024

The decision to sell packages branded as Beast TV, a service that was taken down three years earlier by several Hollywood studios, Netflix, and Canada’s Bell Media, may have been a ploy to exploit existing brand awareness among pirates. The obvious downside was awareness among rightsholders.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 15, 2023

District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday, the complaint speaks of a global pirate IPTV service variously branded as Glo TV, Rays IPTV, and Rays TV. “Rays markets and brands the Infringing Service as, alternatively, Glo TV, Rays IPTV, and Rays TV. Lawsuit Filed In New York District Court Filed in the U.S.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Applicant’s website indicated that "Gigantosaurus" television show "is an animated preschool television series about four young dinosaurs who live during the Cretaceous period when 'Gigantosaurus, the biggest fiercest dinosaur reigns over it all.'"

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 25, 2021

Recently, Domex, a Hindustan Unilever brand, has launched a new ad campaign across print, digital and other media, at least some of which explicitly compares itself to Reckitt Benckiser’s toilet cleaner brand ‘Harpic’. This use is deemed nominative because it “names” the genuine owner of the mark.

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The IPKat

APRIL 13, 2023

Thirdly, the examiner considered that the sign should be analysed as an advertisement for television and that it would not identify company of origin of the products/services. New questions arise for applicants too, especially regarding how to sustain brand presence in the virtual world.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 11, 2023

If we didn’t know better, we might conclude that ‘Cuevana’ is Spanish for ‘mole’ The popular streaming piracy brand first appeared on the radar in 2009 and anti-piracy forces have been trying to ‘whack’ it ever since. Trade Representative’s list of notorious pirate sites. In fact, Cuevana3.io,

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Those locations are reported as playing host to “illegal television content” and related computer equipment. The service worked under various brands including TV Choice Spain, Great TV Choice, and Best TV Choice.

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