Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

To make matters worse, State Farm’s resident do-gooder “Jake” lands a Fonzie-style smack on the Crystal Castles machine to get it working—”suggesting falsely and disparagingly to consumers that Atari’s cabinets are low-quality, faulty, and/or unreliable.” The Gap, Inc.

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APRIL 25, 2023

21, 2023) In two opinions on the same day, the court dealt with various IP/false advertising claims brought by one litter box seller against another. Plaintiff (dba Whisker) sued defendant (dba Smarty Pear), its competitor in the market for automated, self-cleaning litter boxes. Purlife Brands, Inc., 2023 WL 3046592, No.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

2, 2022) Before the jury verdict in favor of Monster’s false advertising claim was this opinion resolving evidentiary issues. They weren’t directly asked about the phrase “Super Creatine,” whether participants had prior experiences with or opinions of Bang, or whether they had seen Vital’s advertising in the market.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Mary Katherine Amerine, Reasonably Careless Consumers in TM & False Advertising How do courts treat consumers in TM and false advertising cases? False advertising uses v different framework: consider the challenged ad as a whole, including disclaimers and qualifying language. Beer Nuts, Bulls’ Eye v.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Peacock alleged that Pabst violated consumer protection law by marketing “The Original Olympia Beer” as using naturally filtered, artisan water from Tumwater, Washington (a suburb of Olympia, Washington) “despite the product being brewed elsewhere in the country using lower quality water and brewing methods.” Pabst Brewing Co.,

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Was this commercial advertising or promotion? Elysium argued that Right of Assembly was “a marketing website for Tru Niagen for which ChromaDex pays commissions to Shelly Albaum for Tru Niagen customers referred through the website.” Thus, any false advertising claim would lie against Albaum, not [directly] against ChromaDex.

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JULY 6, 2022

Marketing Sales Practices & Prods. Plaintiffs moved to certify four classes of purchasers of JUUL products on “theories that defendants’ marketing of JUUL was unlawfully deceptive, JUUL was unlawfully marketed to youth, and JUUL products are not fit for ordinary use.” In Re Juul Labs, Inc., I don't even have a RICO tag!

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Kaira District Co-Operative Milk Producers’ Union Limited and Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. Kaira also owns common law design marks which are displayed on the websites www.amul.com and www.amuldairy.com. AMUL Canada , 2021 FC 636 is the most recent example of the effectiveness of default judgment.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

So too w/false advertising. Assumptions skipped over in TM/false advertising analysis.] Keep up with the culture by considering social media. It’s market definition. Death closes things off. Makes sense b/c consumer protection law’s goal is information safety and not vindicating rights of decedent.

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JULY 20, 2023

Since early 2020, Defendant Nepute and Quickwork have used several platforms, including social media, emails, and radio, to tout the purported benefits of Vitamin D and zinc and to promote Wellness Warrior supplements. ” The COVID-19 Act was enacted on December 27, 2020. It filed suit on April 15, 2021.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Adjudicators need to hear about risks of overenforcement, overclaiming; defenses—he gets emails from sellers of used or grey market goods snared in a robotic search. Other examples: design patent, as Sarah Burstein has writte n. User names on social media may or may not include trademarks; user bios give more information.

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JULY 21, 2023

but also narrows the issues somewhat; the larger infringement, cybersquatting, and false advertising claims can’t be resolved on summary judgment. Axon sued for infringement of the Taser word and design marks and for holding Taser-related domain names for ransom. logos on their materials to identify their social media accounts.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

On social media: "Were U planning on telling UR customers" [to switch before they lose service]? There was clear knowledge of the automatic stay, given that “Charter premised the campaign on false assertions regarding the Debtors’ bankruptcy cases.” Diecast Marketing Innovations, LLC (In re Collecting Concepts), 2000 Bankr.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The Court noted that the Patents Act is specifically designed to deal with matters concerning allegations of unreasonable conditions in licence agreements, abuse of one’s status as a patentee, the necessary inquiry into these allegations, and eventually the relief that can be granted. Controller of Patents & Designs Patent Office Mumbai.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Thus, nonexpressive uses don’t interfere w/the kind of interest © is designed to protect, which is why they are such strong candidates for fair use. TM law should facilitate disclosure or it will fall behind market. 57% say sellers could be liable for false etc. Expand social media monitoring. Fresh start.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We can make things excludable through tech and law, making things that previously looked like public goods providable by private markets. Book project: how do we reconcile that with our intuitions about markets and distributive justice? MLMs vary on type of guidance they give sellers about legal restrictions on marketing claims.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Malwarebytes, which allowed a false advertising claim to proceed based on one software provider’s use of the terms “malicious” and “threat” to describe its alleged competitor’s software, despite a dissent raising free speech arguments. Then I’ll talk about the 9 th Circuit case Enigma Software v. Trademark: In Jack Daniel’s v.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this recent case, Epic sought to register this design for "downloadable video game software"—the Loot Llama in Fortnite, which serves as a resource cache for players. The colors were arbitrary when initially chosen, but the market had learned that colors corresponded to specific diameters and lengths as required for specific mixing ratios.

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