The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2022

Digital assets can be protected by IP and have always been capable of being licensed or assigned via a contract, or protected as a trade mark. For example, the owners of the famous “ Grumpy Cat ” meme licensed the use of the name, image and likeness of the cat – and successfully enforced these rights.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2024

Thus, Lady Freethinker sued YouTube for breach of contract and related claims. (A Rather than engaging this contract law issue directly, the court rules for YouTube on Section 230 grounds: Lady Freethinker’s claims ultimately seek to treat Google as the publisher or speaker of content provided by another information content provider.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 22, 2021

Courts have rejected Section 230 defenses against claims for false advertising, deceptive trade practices, and tortious interference. Certain claims sounding in contract or tort may be beyond the reach of Section 230(c)(2)’s protection from suit. See, e.g., E-Ventures Worldwide, LLC v. Google, Inc. , 3d 1265 (M.D. eBay, Inc. ,

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

25, 2021) Unlike the education cases so far, this pandemic case sustains both consumer protection and contract claims. Defendants first argued that passes didn’t not qualify as “goods or services” under the CLRA, but were only temporary licenses, with services provided only ancillary to the license. Alterra Mountain Co.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Even if Google’s conduct could be interpreted as a technical violation of many websites’ notoriously overbroad terms of service, their conduct doesn’t meet the criteria for most online breach of contract disputes. Trademark, copyright, trespass to chattels, the law of online contracts—none of this stuff is novel.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The defendant was initially given “complete and exclusive licensing rights in and to [the selected mares] and all cloned foals.” Litigation ensued, with lots of claims, including the Lanham Act claims on which I will focus, though breach of contract claims were prominent and survived a motion to dismiss.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2023

The claim is for trade mark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, cybersquatting, and other cause of actions before the Central District of California. What is really interesting is that the smart contract does not contain a link to the image but rather a link to a JSON file.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Route sued for breach of contract, commercial disparagement and defamation per se, intentional tortious interference with contractual relations, false advertising, and contributory trademark infringement. The breach of contract claim survived. Heuberger was a Route customer who then launched a competitor, Navidium.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 25, 2022

The false advertising parts: Jeong alleged that Nexo advertised to consumers that it does not own users’ collateral (e.g., In addition, Jeong alleged that Nexo violated the unlawful prong of the UCL by offering loans in California despite lacking a California Finance Lender (CFL) License.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 27, 2024

This is a false advertising lawsuit again the mobile app game Game of Thrones: Conquest. The account formation process included a screen where a user could proceed only by clicking on the “play” button: Warner Bros. sought to send the case to arbitration. The district court disagreed. Warner Bros.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 5, 2022

4, 2022) Frequent IP claimant Lisa Frank is in court this time over a failed deal with a vegan cosmetics company, whose contract aspects I will ignore. To say we are disappointed by the events that transpired as a result of this license is an understatement. CV-21-00228-TUC-SHR, 2022 WL 3098042 (D.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

He paid money to get extra visibility for his dating profile and claims he got poor results, so he sued Bumble for false advertising. Alkutkar used the dating app Bumble. Bumble successfully redirects the case to arbitration based on its TOS. Alkutkar joined Bumble in 2016. ” I don’t understand how that happened.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 10, 2023

DealMaker alleged that defendants stole its trade secrets and also alleged violation of state and federal false advertising law. DealMaker noted that Issuance’s own terms include a provision that allows Issuance to license its data. Defendants offered examples of contracts that, they argued, had a fee structure of 8-10%.

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43(B)log

MARCH 9, 2022

As the licensee, Brown Bottling had “standing to bring false affiliation claims under Section 43(a).” Then the court recited the elements of false advertising under §43(a)(1)(B), and then it identified the multifactor confusion test as the relevant test, so your guess is as good as mine about what provision is at issue.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But DNP isn’t actually licensed to practice law. MillerKing, a small Chicago law firm that claims to be a direct competitor of DNP, sued DNP for false association and false advertising under the Lanham Act and Illinois state law. DNP advertises that it uses artificial intelligence” rather than “human knowledge.”

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43(B)log

JUNE 6, 2023

Enigma sued its competitor Malwarebytes for Lanham Act false advertising and NY business torts for designating its products as “malicious,” “threats,” and “potentially unwanted programs” (PUPs). Enigma alleged that its software products “(i) detect and remove malicious software (i.e.,

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The Court interpreted the clause on ownership of work made during a contract of service (Section 17(c)) to not apply in situations where there is a contract between equals. The Court limited the scope of Section 17(c) to apply to contracts where the relationship between the parties is akin to that of an apprenticeship.

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43(B)log

MARCH 23, 2023

“Regardless of which device is used to access digital content, or which ‘iTunes’ app is used to buy or rent the digital content, the app provides a tab or folder labeled ‘purchased.’ ” But when third parties terminate their licensing agreements with Apple, Apple “must revoke [a] consumer[’s] access” to purchased digital content “without warning.”

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 6, 2021

EBPHI administers and owns the National Home Inspectors Examination (NHIE), an exam many states use to license home inspectors. In addition to being a membership association for home inspectors, InterNACHI also offers a competing licensing exam for the home inspection industry. Two entities, EBPHI and ASHI, sued InterNACHI.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

Social media influencers sign contracts with businesses to promote their products by providing original content for such brands. False advertising should be avoided when defaming a product. Avoid using brand names, logos, trademarks, and copyrighted material without first obtaining the relevant permits and licenses.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sheff: What about licensing/merchandising in this system? Many contracts—77%--say sellers can only use marketing claims or materials provided by company; 71% say other claims must be pre-approved (that seems contradictory). 57% say sellers could be liable for false etc. claims, but only 24% reference or explain specific rules.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

For about a decade, courts had realized that IIC had gone way too far, and had expanded liability in ways that didn’t protect consumers and facilitated anticompetitive claims about false advertising. May 20, 2021) (R&R) renting existing equipment; Pine was formerly one of Proactive’s licensed distributors for the pumps.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Regulator will impose “conditions of service,” though not quite traditional broadcaster licensing. Certain procedural requirements: must be able to see & save a copy of the disclosures/contract w/in 15 days, via email receipt for example. Jose Antonio Arochi: Mexico doesn’t have specific regulations.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

licensing) for roles. Businesses harm consumers only in a few ways—false advertising, monopoly prices, defective products. Amazon may also be able to redefine information by contract. Law can shape roles: set exit and entry conditions (e.g. The roles of business and consumer have been applied flatly and wrongly.

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