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‘Fear of God’ and their Fear of Counterfeit: Taking Legal Action Against Fake E-commerce Sites

IPilogue

Meena Alnajar is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Web designers can effectively imitate popular online retailers or claim to be resale sites authorized to sell the trademarked items, promoting uncertainty as to which sites are counterfeiters.

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DMCA Scammers Exploit Sites Linked to Mental Health Issues to Boost SEO

TorrentFreak

As the archive copy of the Beyond Boundaries website on the Wayback Machine clearly shows in the footer, the site was created by web design/SEO company i New Media. Throwing in the exact same DNS server for both domains on top of this IP address coincidence seems mathematically extraordinary but what will happen next is unknown.

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Biggest Colorado Decisions Of 2023

IP Law 360

Supreme Court loomed large in Colorado this year, with the state suffering two major defeats, including its prominent anti-discrimination loss involving an anti-gay web designer. Here, Law360 looks at some of the biggest decisions affecting Colorado in 2023.

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Now Is Really the Time to Pay Attention to Dark Patterns – Seriously

LexBlog IP

Similarly, are call-to-action buttons or other aspects of web design being chosen based on consumer research that indicates which of multiple “clear” yet different designs is more likely to get the desired outcome? Are consumers being presented with two choices that are both prominent but one is more prominent?

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What is the “Supplemental Trademark Register”?

LexBlog IP

completely unrelated to web design), and would likely register. Of course, that does not mean that an applicant cannot use “COMPANY.” ” For example, if the name were “BANANA GRAPHIX COMPANY,” the term “BANANA” is “arbitrary” (i.e.,

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Blogiversary: Who Reads the Blog, and Why? (Part 3 of 10)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

I read your blog because it is THE BEST blog on IP and Internet Law: the writing, the research, the topic selection… Everything is top notch! and I constantly find myself bringing it into the classroom to share whenever we cover anything from contracts, securities, torts, IP, to the first amendment.”