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How to enforce trademark rights

Erik K Pelton

If the other business is using a confusingly similar name for a related service or product, then action may be warranted. Before sending a cease and desist demand letter, one should consider: Is this a real infringement concern? Are your businesses related? For more about cease and desist letters, visit our page here.

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When Sending a Cease and Desist Letter Establishes Personal Jurisdiction

JD Supra Law

A patentee may establish “minimum contacts” in a forum, thus subjecting itself to specific personal jurisdiction, by sending a cease and desist letter to the forum. Precedent concerning this issue has been evolving. Previously, the Federal Circuit held in Red Wing Shoe Co. Hockerson-Halberstadt, Inc. Hockerson-Halberstadt, Inc.

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Police Visit Pirate IPTV Suppliers’ Homes to Serve Cease-and-Desist Notices

TorrentFreak

FACT investigators were reportedly in attendance when the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit, West Yorkshire Police, and Dyfed-Powys Police delivered cease-and-desist notices to people’s homes. Relatively Low-Level Suppliers Receive High-Level Attention.

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YouTube Ripper Sends Cease and Desist to Google, Hoping to Stop DMCA Abuse

TorrentFreak

Cease and Desist This activity has been a growing source of frustration for YTMP3.nu’s To put an end to the abuse, the YouTube ripper asked its lawyer to send a cease and desist and preservation demand to Google. According to YTMP3.nu, nu’s operator. According to the letter, YTMP3.nu

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VNest IPTV Faces US Piracy Lawsuit After Failing to Cease-and-Desist

TorrentFreak

“According to Defendants, VNest TV offers ‘the best content and up time than anyone else in the business.’ Despite VNest TV’s operator being terribly exposed, at least one cease-and-desist notification sent by the plaintiffs went ignored. The complaint can be found here (pdf).

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UK Police and FACT Continue IPTV Piracy Whack-a-Mole

TorrentFreak

New Pirate Streaming Crackdown Today, FACT announced yet another successful ‘crackdown’ where cease and desist letters were sent to thirty suppliers of illegal IPTV services across the UK. Our cease-and-desist measures are not just warnings — they are the first step toward holding offenders accountable.

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Tacos with a Side of Cease and Desist

IPilogue

Controversy ensued when a Mexican food restaurant in the UK, Taquería, issued a cease and desist letter to a similar restaurant, Sonora Taquería, for infringement of their registered mark “Taqueria.” ” However, Sonora Taquería is not the first business TW’s trademark is enforced against.