Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

With that, it’s fair to say that many of the key questions in this area of law are still undecided. On January 9th, American Airlines sent TPG a cease-and-desist letter. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts. Trespass 5.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2024

They were either notified via mail by FACT and police, or visited at their home, where a cease-and-desist notice was delivered personally. Since June, the media company reportedly removed over 3,000 listings from various social media platforms.

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Kashishipr

MAY 4, 2022

To safeguard your trademarks adequately, you should track new trademark filings, online use, social media usage of marks, and domain names, which shall alert you to potential conflicts. The same includes e-commerce marketplaces, standalone business websites, and social media channels. Bottom Line. For more visit: [link].

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Among other things, Firestick Steve’s services were promoted in YouTube videos that appeared completely oblivious to the fact that selling pirate IPTV services is illegal, under civil law (if you’re lucky) and criminal law (if you’re not). Not even a cease-and-desist convinced him to stop.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2017 and 2018, its lawyers wrote to them several times, demanding that they cease and desist. In order to function, EngineOwning uses a number of services including internet service providers, payment providers and social media websites. “[T]he Doe Defendants certainly are aware of this lawsuit.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

TRADE MARKS Lise Charles (WTR) provides an overview of the most-read posts on Word Trademark Review (WTR) on European trade mark case law over the past year, including analyses of cases dealing with issues such as unconventional signs (i.e., Several cases were concluded without judgment. disputes between domain names and trademarks).

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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! Missed opportunities to reclaim social media usernames registered by others. Since 1999, I have built and managed my own small business, Erik M. More challenges to license or franchise the brand.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In 2020 his Area 51 service was shut down following an Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) cease-and-desist letter. Settled law permits entry of default against willful infringers like Tusa who make a strategic decision to not defend their conduct in court,” the motion reads.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the years DISH has filed large numbers of civil lawsuits, some based on copyright law and others the Federal Communications Act. DISH went to some lengths to try and close Universe down including sending cease-and-desist letters directly to the platform and more than a dozen to CDN networks associated with the service.

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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. TGE claimed Bernstein copied their signature pattern of nude female silhouette line drawings, which had been printed on their tissue paper since the store’s inception in 2016.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 18, 2022

The service was marketed and sold to users via these domains and through social media platforms. The complaint states that around September 24, 2021, the defendants were notified that their service violates federal laws and told to cease and desist. PrimeStreams Ignored Warning. The decision could prove costly.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media. Don’t overlook company social media accounts, domain names, and toll-free numbers, which may also serve as potential trademarks. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? Some Perspectives Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? Ltd vs Poi Social Media Pvt. Humans Of Bombay Stories Pvt.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Trademark Law Before pre-digitalization The US Trademark Office (USPTO) defines a trademark as a word, phrase, design, or symbol that serves to identify and distinguish the products or services you sell apart from those of others. In addition, trademark law seeks to safeguard a mark’s good name and reputation among customers.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 26, 2022

“This growth dramatically increases ACE’s global network, including key partnerships with local law enforcement and other authorities, and its ability to shut down illegal piracy operations around the world,” Van Voorn tells us. Collaborating with Governments and Law Enforcement. ” Some of ACE’s Members.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Fortunately, copyright law prohibits the unauthorized reproduction of a work. Social Media Complaints and Takedown Policies. If that outreach is unsuccessful, there are internal reporting and takedown mechanisms available on almost all of the different social media platforms. Cease and Desist Letters.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. Melee , know this better than anyone. tournament circuit beginning in 2022.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Judging from the Rusty Krab’s marketing efforts and social media promotion as detailed in Viacom’s complaint, the pop-up was far more focused on providing the backdrop for Instagram-worthy selfies than it was on producing edible food. Defining the scope of Viacom’s trademark rights more explicitly might not change the outcome.

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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. One twist is that Ryanair cannot sue Booking in the United States for breach of its terms of service, because Ryanair’s terms of service are governed by Irish law and require the jurisdiction of Irish courts. hiQ Labs II at 43.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Not unreasonably, lawyers continue to view this language from the 9th Circuit as an invitation to explore the possibility that somewhere in the law is an affirmative right to scrape public data. Meta sent Bright Data a series of cease-and-desist notices telling it to stop. hiQ Labs I, 938 F.3d 3d 985 at 1005 ; hiQ Labs II at 43.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

For example, the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. LinkedIn and Facebook, most notably, have done as much as anyone to shape the law of web scraping. The social media companies have no cognizable property right to assert in this content/data.

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With the ever-increasing presence of social media, including websites like YouTube where content can generate income, copyright infringement is escalating at alarming rates. The social media platform would then notify the copyright violator, usually by forwarding the letter they have received.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

Before you spend time and money marketing under that business name, you need to make sure it is legally a great name, one you can feel confident in using without running into an unexpected cease and desist request or trademark infringement litigation and the potential catastrophe of forced rebranding on a short time scale.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2022

Abhijay Srekanth is an LLM candidate at the Queen Mary University of London specialising in IP, and a recent graduate of Jindal Global Law School. Vivek Basanagoudar is a fourth year law student at Jindal Global Law School. The views expressed in the piece are personal.

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Corsearch

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Many social media users and influencers were happy to promote PandaBuy as a low cost, high-quality counterfeit supplier, leading to the network achieving an average of 16 million monthly visitors. After presenting all evidence to our key contacts, PIPCU then forwarded evidence to Chinese law enforcement.

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Kashishipr

JULY 21, 2021

Online marketplaces, search engine results, and social media should be monitored regularly, and infringements acted on quickly. Takedown notices, cease and desist notices, etc., The post Dealing with Counterfeits on E-Commerce Websites appeared first on Blog | Kashish IPR | Intellectual Property Rights Law Firm.

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 24, 2024

The rule broadly prohibits any person from taking any action to prevent an individual from contacting the SEC directly to report a possible securities law. As part of the order, JPM agreed to pay an $18 million file and to cease and desist from any further violations of Rule 21f-17(a). with respect to such communications.”

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

Netflix could have sent Barlow & Bear a cease and desist letter hand-delivered by Regé-Jean Page. Frankly, if Barlow & Bear’s work doesn’t infringe Netflix’s exclusive right to create derivative works under copyright law, I’m not sure what would. Even better, it’s in the public domain.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media. Don’t overlook company social media accounts, domain names, and toll-free numbers, which may also serve as potential trademarks.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 24, 2024

The rule broadly prohibits any person from taking any action to prevent an individual from contacting the SEC directly to report a possible securities law. As part of the order, JPM agreed to pay an $18 million file and to cease and desist from any further violations of Rule 21f-17(a). with respect to such communications.”

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

JULY 11, 2024

This practice of a person obtaining registration with mala fide intention & bad faith, in turn, acts as a huge hinderance for the true owner/ proprietors in obtaining registration for their mark as our law does not allow for the registration of any identical/ confusingly/ deceptively similar marks under Section 11 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999.

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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This blog will argue that copyright law should not be leveraged to destroy donation-based mods the way it has done so to paywalled mods. 32] RuneLite HD only shut down in the first place due to a cease and desist letter from the publisher. 5] The mere threat of litigation is enough to shut most fan projects down entirely. [6]

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Once a brand becomes popular, it is no longer necessary to use the actual brand name in posters and other forms of marketing; this may be accomplished by simply writing the product’s information with the trademark sign and flashing it on social media and other sites to increase its popularity.

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As a way to supplement her income, she put on a contest whereby her social media followers would buy gift certificates for future tattoos and would get to vote on one of several funny tattoos that would eventually be tattooed onto the artist’s husband. Netflix moved to dismiss the complaint on, among other grounds, fair use.

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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. Learn more about trademarks and how King Business and Patent Law, PLLC can help you develop, register, maintain, and enforce your trademarks and maximize their value at [link].

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

While both cover song and remix attract copyright implications, we focus on the laws pertaining to remix in this blog. When creating a remix, it falls under the scope of a derivative work, and as it consists of alteration of primarily elements of the original work, it directly infringes upon the right of the owners if not done as per law.

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