The IPKat

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Katy Perry's team became aware of the KATIE PERRY trade mark application in May 2009 and authorised lawyers to send a cease-and-desist letter, then attempt to resolve the matter through negotiation of a co-existence arrangement. Her management team set up a web-store by 24 September 2008 to advertise and sell such merchandise.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 12, 2022

Others are hit with cease-and-desist notices and/or direct legal action. Both domains carry a single page of text, there are no clickable links to other domains, and definitely no infringing copies of Hollywood movies. This time, however, the DMCA subpoena application filed by ACE/MPA is framed differently.

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Cease and Desist Television Copyright IP 144

IPilogue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Dorland and her lawyer sent various cease and desist letters to Larson and her publishers, but it wasn’t until Dorland happened upon an audio recording of an earlier iteration of “The Kindest” that she decided to take action.

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Copyright Infringement Art Copyright Cease and Desist 111

Trading Secrets

JULY 27, 2022

The court also allowed Macaroco’s Chapter 93A claims to proceed, disagreeing with Vanity Lab’s argument that because the contract at issue arose from Macaroco’s employment relationship with the company, it did not fall under the definition of “trade or commerce” as required by Chapter 93A.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As usual in these types of cases, Ryanair sent cease-and-desist letters to Booking telling it to stop. Instead, as described by the district court in Nosal II , “[t]he common definition of the word ‘access’ encompasses not only the moment of entry, but also the ongoing use of a computer system.” Needless to say, it didn’t stop.

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Blogging Cease and Desist Business Litigation 111

TorrentFreak

MARCH 10, 2022

The sites are taken down in a number of ways, from cease-and-desist warnings to full-blown litigation. The agreement gave the Hollywood group “Trusted Notifier” status and to the registry became the definitive authority on what is considered a large-scale piracy website.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

I predict a cease and desist letter”; “I WILL DEFINITELY BE CONTACTING NICKOLODEON TO ASK IF THIS GHETTO PLACE HAVE THE RIGHTS.”. The court then moves on to consider Viacom’s copyright infringement claim.

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Blogging Social Media Television Fair Use 111

Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At least one medical device manufacturer took issue with the online library and sent iFixit a cease-and-desist letter, citing its exclusive rights under copyright to reproduce and communicate the repair information online. Citing the U.S.

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Copyright Cease and Desist Fair Use Publishing 105

The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Unless a company executive is closely managing these vendors when they do their work, it would be difficult to determine whether or not they engaged in acts that may be considered infringement until the company receives a cease and desist letter.

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IP Intellectual Property Social Media Cease and Desist 98

The IPKat

MARCH 14, 2024

As the persons by whom the arrangements for the making of the audiovisual work were made (see section 108 on definition of author of an audiovisual work), it seems that Ini Edo and Chinenye Nworah are the authors of the audiovisual work (Shanty Town) unless their contract provides otherwise.

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The IPKat

APRIL 27, 2024

On 7 May 2021, ROSAE PARIS unsuccessfully sent a cease-and-desist letter to SEVEN AUGUST. It is regrettable that the court merely referred to the general definition of an informed user as defined by the CJEU [ IPKat on Pepsico ] but did not try to identify who precisely that informed user would be in this case. Falguière ).

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to the current patent law and draft examination guideline (2022), the following entities can request a PER: Patent owners Parties of interest Accused infringers The draft guideline provides further clarification on these categories, including the rights of co-owners, licensees, and the controversial definition of accused infringers.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

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. It is also often argued that fashion recycles itself, and there has to be a loose definition of “copying” if the industry is to be able to create and innovate freely.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

precedent, could Meta just amend its terms, send another cease-and-desist, and revisit this, or does this case repudiate that whole line of precedent? If Judge Chen thinks he’s doing consumers a solid with these rulings, he’s definitely mistaken. I would be shocked if Meta didn’t appeal this. Verio, Inc.

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Blogging Contracts Cease and Desist Confidentiality 98

JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

32] RuneLite HD only shut down in the first place due to a cease and desist letter from the publisher. Donation based mods have existed in a grey area with few definite boundaries. 6] Alex Seedhouse, Pokémon Prism Cancelled After Nintendo Deliver Cease And Desist Letter, Nintendo Insider, (Dec 22, 2016), [link]. [7]

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Derivative Work Cease and Desist Blogging Litigation 59

IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Trademark owners frequently used cease and desist letters to pressure infringers to stop using their marks without authorization before taking legal action. Anonymity of Infringers Anonymous actors make it difficult to identify defendants, hindering the service of notice and delivery of cease requests.

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 17, 2022

While a trademark administrative procedure would end within a few days with a peremptory order to cease and desist the illicit use of the bottles and a fine for the infringer, an unfair competition/trade dress lawsuit could last for 12 months and would be more expensive. Tsingtao’s choice.

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Trademark Registering Trademarks Art Cease and Desist 104

IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 28, 2023

There is a need to draft a new rule as a typical small but significant Non-Transitory Price Increase strategy to market definition may not work.

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Marketing Marketing Cease and Desist Technology 52

LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Vagueness and ambiguity are one thing when a company is weighing whether its actions might violate Section 5 and subject it to a cease-and-desist order, but it is quite another thing when they characterize a rule, the violation of which subjects companies to potentially substantial per-violation civil penalties.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

If your likeness is used without permission, take immediate legal action, including sending cease and desist letters and filing lawsuits for unauthorized use of likeness and rights of publicity. The allure of AI personas is undeniable. Act Now Don’t let AI catch you unprepared.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 6, 2024

If your likeness is used without permission, take immediate legal action, including sending cease and desist letters and filing lawsuits for unauthorized use of likeness and rights of publicity. The allure of AI personas is undeniable. Act Now Don’t let AI catch you unprepared.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Defendants’ Response: The Defendants stated that they are not intending to use the marks ‘SAUNDARYA POTLI’ and ‘BABY ESSENTIALS’ and have undertaken so, in their reply to the cease-and-desist notice issued by the Plaintiff prior to filing the suit.

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Cease and Desist Trademark Branding Brands 52

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

Unless a company executive is closely managing these vendors when they do their work, it would be difficult to determine whether or not they engaged in acts that may be considered infringement until the company receives a cease and desist letter.

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IP Intellectual Property Social Media Cease and Desist 52

LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The SEC sanctions included both cease-and-desist orders and financial penalties against investment advisors and broker-dealers for violation of the Safeguards Rule. The failures resulted in the exploitation of vulnerable email accounts and exposed the personal information of thousands of customers and clients.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2022

While a trademark administrative procedure would end within a few days with a peremptory order to cease and desist the illicit use of the bottles and a fine for the infringer, an unfair competition/trade dress lawsuit could last for 12 months and would be more expensive. Tsingtao’s choice.

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Trademark Registering Trademarks Art Cease and Desist 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 29, 2023

The court says those aren’t DMCA takedown notices by definition, because they didn’t assert any copyright interests; so they are outside 512(f)’s scope. Summit Entertainment * Cease & Desist Letter to iTunes Isn’t Covered by 17 USC 512(f)–Red Rock v.

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Fair Use Cease and Desist Copyright Trademark 105

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2023

The first is definitional. Since the functional test for a de facto noncompete is determined by “effect,” employers will have to be careful in how they enforce these agreements, whether by cease-and-desist letter or through litigation. And frankly, these are good practices that employers should implement anyway.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

5 UrhDaG excludes online marketplaces from the definition of online content-sharing service provider. The BGH also rejected Stoererhaftung because the act of reproduction had already ceased by the time the platform became aware of the copyright-infringing use of the photograph (paragraphs 81 et seqq. 6 DSM Directive, Section 3 No.

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Cease and Desist Copyright Copyright Infringement Journalism 59

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

1125(c)(3)(C) is problematic, other parts of the Jack Daniel’s decision are definitely speech-protective. Is Jack Daniel’s a Speech-Protective Trademark Opinion? While the Court’s interpretation of 15 U.S.C.

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Trademark Blogging Trademark Law Fair Use 105

SpicyIP

MARCH 17, 2025

This practice allegedly continued despite PPL sending a cease-and-desist notice to Azure, which went unanswered. DXC contains a broad definition of business which can be stretched to trample on owners rights as well. Thus, PPL filed the present suit for copyright infringement and interim reliefs with respect to the same.

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Licensing Law Cease and Desist Copyright 58

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Capitol Records (the successor to EMI) sent its first cease-and-desist letter to Vimeo in 2008 and sued Vimeo for copyright infringement in 2009. It would be so much better if the Second Circuit actually offered a definition of “substantial influence,” rather than dancing around the issue with ambiguous innuendo, but no.

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Music Fair Use Copyright Cease and Desist 92