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influencers aren't advertisers' agents, materiality can be common sense, & more in supplement case

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A whole industry exists of social media influencers, who create their own content touting products and receive commission on sales of those products that stem from their advertising. Thus, any false advertising claim would lie against Albaum, not [directly] against ChromaDex.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

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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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Artistic Expression or Crass Commercialism? Drawing the lines in Right of Publicity, Lanham Act, and Commercial Speech Cases

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I’m going to talk briefly about last term’s Jack Daniels case—a trademark infringement and dilution case—as well as Elster, argued last week, in which the Justices appeared inclined to reject a First Amendment challenge to the refusal to register the claimed mark “TRUMP TOO SMALL” for t-shirts. Trademark: In Jack Daniel’s v.

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WIPIP: Innovation Theory & TM

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Rierson, Trademark Law and the Creep of Legal Formalism Various rules w/in TM law have been codified that we seem to be treating more as formalistic labels or bright line rules when a more practical approach is preferable in TM context instead of leaning on labels. How do they make that happen? Gender and class?

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USC IP year in review, TM/ROP

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But even if the n-word isn’t unregistrable because it’s scandalous or disparaging, it may still be unregistrable because it already has so much expressive meaning that it’s simply incapable of adding a trademark function. failure to function can be significant in ordinary cases with uncontroversial subject matter.

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