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Trademarks: An Emerging Social Media and Influencer Phenomenon

IP and Legal Filings

Across-the-board social media and influencer marketing integration are aspects of the present-day artificiality regarding persuasive brand dissemination in faces and identities. However, it provides both good challenges and opportunities under trademark law. It has also brought a lot of challenges.

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Trademark law and LinkedIn resumes: watch out?

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Maybe companies can resurrect noncompetes by prohibiting uses of their trademarks in former employees’ resumes! Portkey sued for unfair competition/reverse passing off, false advertising, and trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, as well as related state-law claims. Venkateswaran, 2024 WL 3487735, No.

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Unreasoned Orders for Personality Rights

IP and Legal Filings

Therefore, the right to publicity in the US aims to prevent the unfair appropriation of an individual’s celebrity for commercial gains, indicating a close association with false advertising law. Courts in India have relied on a combination of legal concepts to determine the status of personality rights. D.A.P & Co. &

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using an ITU to get non-Amazon platforms to take down competitors

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22, 2022) This is a super messy case with a lot going on; I’m going to blog about it mainly to highlight a new thing you can apparently do with a trademark application , which is use it on non-Amazon platforms to gain advantages. Jones is “a social media influencer, media personality, and celebrity gossip blogger.”

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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. The report didn’t prove causation.

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Second Circuit signals some minimal flexibility on Polaroid analysis in another strip club false endorsement case

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May 19, 2023) Whereas the timeshare false advertising cases might be making law largely applicable to other timeshare cases, what’s going on in the strip club advertising cases might have somewhat broader implications. The district court concluded that plaintiffs’ false endorsement claims were foreclosed by Electra v.

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11th Circuit affirms Viacom's Rogers-based win for MTV Floribama Shore

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An online article used photos of the Lounge in its coverage of the series, and MGFB also submitted social media posts. Plaintiffs’ social media expert opined that the show meant that Internet searches for “Florabama” or “Flora-Bama” led to “blurred” results filled with MTV Floribama Shore content.