IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Reason Behind This Evolutionary Development Brand and companies have made it a trend to evolve from time to time creating variants over their original/ main or core mark. It strengthens brand awareness, builds a better rapport, and a more intimate Business-to-consumer relation which builds trust and faith in their product.

Branding 84

Branding Brands Branding Trademark 84

TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

All of these sites have long since disappeared, but interestingly their brands live on. It’s perhaps fitting that sites that relied heavily on copying are being copied themselves; the original operators can hardly complain about that. Putlocker.com. Government’s notorious markets report.

Advertising 95

Advertising Advertising Copying Branding 95

43(B)log

DECEMBER 26, 2022

for unlawfully manufacturing, importing, advertising, marketing, selling, and distributing unauthorized, counterfeit versions of its popular CAKE brand of hemp-derived Delta-8 products. Here, however, AKF didn’t allege that Mothership ever marketed, sold, or advertised the “Cake” mark. AKF sued LCF etc. 3d 1068 (9th Cir.

Copyright Infringement 59

Copyright Infringement Branding Brands Branding 59

43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

Industria, based on Colombia, produces and distributes food products under two relevant brand names: Zenú and Ranchera. They’re successful brands: approximately $300,000,000 annually in sales of Zenú products and $100,000,000 in sales of Ranchera products. For the first two, Industria failed to show literal falsity.

False Advertising 59

False Advertising Advertising Advertising Registration 59

The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

P and P Imports (“P&P”) sells outdoor games under its GoSports brand, and in December 2016, it began selling its “Giant 4 in a Row Game” that was based on the classic tabletop version. The Ninth Circuit first recognized that “proof of copying strongly supports an inference of secondary meaning.”

Copying 98

Copying Marketing Marketing Advertising 98

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For the benefit of readers, I am copy-pasting the relevant parts of the judgment: “9. states that “The brand names serve as information ‘chunks’. Given, only a familiar brand name, a host of relevant and important information can be efficiently called into consciousness.”

Trademark 59

Trademark Branding Brands Branding 59

43(B)log

APRIL 28, 2022

He also hosted a reunion and golf tournament in 2007 and engaged in other referential activities; he managed royalties from the licensed USFL apparel from 2011-2021. They have also entered into numerous business partnerships and relationships for ticketing, advertising and apparel sales.” Plaintiff’s 1980s USFL registrations lapsed.

Licensing 45

Licensing Advertising Advertising Registration 45