43(B)log

JULY 15, 2024

NFT background: In early 2022, StockX introduced Vault NFTs, which featured Nike’s trademarks and provided the holder ownership of an associated physical item. As for the positivity of the ads, “consumer surveys in false advertising cases commonly display the challenged advertisement.”

False Advertising 69

False Advertising Branding Branding Brands 69

LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This exclusive right was infringed because the Defendants’ falsely advertised themselves as Kaira, in a presumed effort to increase their own butter sales in Canada, or to attract Kaira’s prospective employees, distributors and consumers. Kaira also established trademark infringement.

False Advertising 40

False Advertising Social Media Trademark Branding 40

43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

So too w/false advertising. Assumptions skipped over in TM/false advertising analysis.] Benefits: nationwide right of priority, evidence of validity/exclusive ownership, right to police imports, incontestability after 5 years, symbolic benefits like ®. Keep up with the culture by considering social media.

Registration 52

Registration False Advertising Advertising Advertising 52

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

IP 124

IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 124

43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Most common reason: change of ownership or structure, merger, acquisition, sponsorship change, shift from private to public, demerger Change in corporate strategy—globalization or localization, diversify or divest. Takeaway: companies, not lay sellers, must be held liable for false, misleading, or noncompliant claims disseminated by sellers.

Social Media 40

Social Media Fair Use Advertising Advertising 40

IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Across-the-board social media and influencer marketing integration are aspects of the present-day artificiality regarding persuasive brand dissemination in faces and identities. Trademarks Scars on Social Media It defies law in this modern digital age. It has also brought a lot of challenges.

Social Media 102

Social Media Trademark Branding Brands 102

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.

IP 94

IP Trademark Advertising Advertising 94

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2024

It was carefully crafted to deal only with control by a foreign adversary, and it was part of a broader effort to counter a well-substantiated national security threat posed by the PRC On the other hand… 1) influence operations don’t depend solely on ownership of social media. See NetChoice, 144 S.

Social Media 64

Social Media Government Ownership Law 64