IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 3, 2023

While stakeholders and experts struggled to comprehend this ban, on October 5, 2022, word spread that Nigeria’s Federal Government had sued Meta over marketing and was seeking 30 billion naira (about 70 million dollars). The Court of Appeal recently ruled in the case of MIC Royal Limited (MIC) v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Two recent key developments were the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act. On the heels of the mandatory editorial transparency provisions in Florida and Texas’ social media censorship laws, the California legislature thought it could one-up those states by passing a law with at least 161 different disclosure requirements.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2022

Rhode-NYC argues that Hailey Bieber’s use of her middle name “Rhode” as the name of her skin care brand is creating market confusion and potential harm to its goodwill and reputation. Hailey Bieber leverage d her fame and social media following, and that of her husband Justin Bieber’, to immediately establish her brand.

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43(B)log

MARCH 28, 2024

Princeton insured Wonderland from 2016-2018 (with a broad exclusion for defamation, invasion of privacy, and various forms of advertising injury in the second year called the Exhibitions and Related Marketing Exclusion), and agreed to defend the club but reserved the right to deny insurance coverage.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2017 and 2018, its lawyers wrote to them several times, demanding that they cease and desist. In order to function, EngineOwning uses a number of services including internet service providers, payment providers and social media websites. Activision Subpoenas… Everything.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2023

Operating from 2016 until 2018, the Flawless IPTV service copied subscription TV broadcasts from official (and unofficial) sources and then restreamed that content to tens of thousands of customers, at a dramatically cut down price. In common with licensed services, pirate IPTV providers have broadly two options for reaching the market.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 20, 2023

Gold continues with specific examples: For example, Facebook acquired exclusive broadcasting rights for several baseball games during the 2018, 2019 Major League Baseball seasons. When they make money from these activities, social media companies must be obliged to reinvest in our creators and into local content creation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood used Ice Cube’s picture and paraphrase of a line from his song to illustrate an article about market corrections. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v.

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IPilogue

MARCH 1, 2022

On the one hand, social media has enabled global sharing of news and creative media. E: What advice would you give to fellow artists and makers on social media on sharing their work? E: What would you like to see happen in terms of the culture of social media artists and their followers?

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to the Complaint, Defendant, Jane Doe aka Denise Gilbey Moe (“Defendant” or “Moe”), was employed by VAF until October 2018. Due to the nature of Moe’s position, she was allegedly granted access to VAF’s social media accounts including its Facebook page during her employment.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

While Bolt’s trademark registration is for the design mark rather than the pose, the use of poses and gestures in branding can potentially bring a new wave of “unusual” trademarks, especially as social media and technology have spread previously unthought-of but recognizable traits.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 5, 2021

Some interesting discussion on the use of Google and Twitter to determine genericness: Plaintiffs also offered evidence of Google searches and social media mentions on Twitter to support their position that PRETZEL CRISPS is not generic. Whole Foods Market Service, Inc., A company used [competitortrademark].com

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 16, 2023

Over the years, the FTC has issued many 6(b) studies, ranging from the annual studies of cigarette and tobacco marketing to a 2021 study on internet service provider privacy issues to a 2018 study on mobile security issues. Second, the substance Two items were on the agenda today, and they both involve FTC 6(b) studies.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? by guest blogger Prof. Alexandra Jane Roberts. As a bar and restaurant, the use is commercial, but is it also transformative?

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BYU Copyright Blog

MAY 1, 2023

According to the Complaint, Katherine is featured at many educational conferences as a keynote speaker and has a large following of almost 100,000 via her blog and other social media platforms where she shares her findings. The 2018 purchase included only “two Space Saver kits and eight flashcard sets.”

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It submitted 14 social media posts “which it contends shows consumers and retailers attributed a particular source to Defendants’ liquor and Plaintiff’s television show.” (That doesn’t seem a helpful conclusion, but the court seems to think that suggestive terms must have secondary meaning to be protected.)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

Snap appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The court says that document doesn’t make any promises that would help the plaintiffs, plus its audience was law enforcement, not users. LEXIS 12105 (C.D. 19, 2024) The post Plaintiffs Tried to Plead Around Section 230. It Didn’t Work–Ziencik v.

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43(B)log

APRIL 26, 2022

1 Joint & Muscle Spray and Cream Topical Pain Relief Brand” on: (1) its Australian website; (2) social media; and (3) Ultimate Fighting Championship (“UFC”) athletes’ clothing in matches televised in the United States. It also used radio and television outlets in select US markets.

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43(B)log

JULY 6, 2022

Marketing Sales Practices & Prods. Plaintiffs moved to certify four classes of purchasers of JUUL products on “theories that defendants’ marketing of JUUL was unlawfully deceptive, JUUL was unlawfully marketed to youth, and JUUL products are not fit for ordinary use.” In Re Juul Labs, Inc., I don't even have a RICO tag!

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IPilogue

JULY 23, 2021

Despite its short runtime, this episode touches on many interesting ways IP law can apply to the NFT space and is especially important as the NFT market continues to grow. “S S ocial Media & Your IP Rights ” by Innovation Talks. T he Progress Pride Flag, and the Realities of IP ” by Input Doc: Marketing Interviews. “T

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The wranglings caused the registrant’s sticker to be removed from Amazon for a total of 44 days in 2018 across several different incidents. Before November 19, 2018, the previous takedown notices to Amazon didn’t violate 512(f) because the successor licensee didn’t have the requisite bad intent.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

Music is also a vital component of social media platforms, as research displays that nine out of 10 social media users engage in a music related activity on their apps. The EU is a vibrant music market, and the access to—and usage of—personal data helps to maintain this.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Further, they recorded their dissatisfaction with the defendant’s use of the mark ‘Fly High’ as hashtags on popular social media websites to promote their services. vs Gujarat Co-Operative Milk marketing federation LTD. & that is not capable of acting as a source identifier. Download Order/Judgement.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

CAP has provided Guidance (the “ ASA Guidance ”) to assist marketers in interpreting the requirements of the new rules. . It is worth noting that the new rules do not only apply to sports stars, they also apply to influencers with a large under-18s following (for example, reality show stars with a large social media presence). .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Starting in 2018, Shared “lost access” to the instant articles program three times, each time (allegedly) without advance notice despite the applicable TOS saying Facebook “will use good faith efforts to provide Publisher with notice of” any termination.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 6, 2022

It is worth noting that the new rules do not only apply to sports stars, they also apply to influencers with a large under-18s following (for example, reality show stars with a large social media presence). Advertisers will no doubt be looking to launch marketing campaigns to target the opportunities that this presents.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Internet infrastructure company was featured in the first EU piracy watchlist in 2018 and responded with rebuttals. Since then, the company is no longer labeled a ‘notorious market’ Other sites and services have also dropped off the list. Social media. A similar position was experienced by Cloudflare.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

If plaintiffs win cases like this, the obvious implication would be that if social media services can’t prevent all instances of CSAM, they should shut down entirely.] This ruling provides a clear roadmap for Section 230’s resolution to many pending claims against social media. Citing Doe v.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 19, 2022

Consumers and advertisers adequately alleged that Facebook has monopoly power in social network/social media (consumers) and social advertising markets. After all, “improperly prolonging a monopoly is as much an offense against the Sherman Act as is wrongfully acquiring market power in the first place.”

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azrights

MAY 10, 2022

Compumark an industry leader in trademark research and protection reported in 2020 that trademark infringement is rising year on year with 85% of brands experiencing trademark infringement in the previous year, showing a steady upward trend from 81% in 2018 and 74% in 2017. Not understanding marketing. Failing to plan properly.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 15, 2023

The company aims at highlighting the qualities of the products through advertisements which thereafter becomes an advertisement campaign which build the market identity of the product. The advertisements require a lot of brainstorming in highlighting the distinctive characteristics of the product and build its uniqueness.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There is uncertainty over how much selection and refinement is needed to produce the best work (see examples of selection, refinement and reworking here and here ) and getting the right prompt is challenging enough to have created a market for effective prompts.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Case Summaries Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing v. The plaintiff submitted that though their “Sufiyana” mark has not been registered, they have been using the same since 2014/ 2018 and thus have gathered a substantive goodwill in the market. But how does this finding interact with the position of relevant laws in India?

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

We live in the digital age of smartphones and social media, where the large scale capturing and sharing of photographs has become a global run-of-the-mill form of communication and expression. The rights in these photographs are typically subject to the licensing schemes of the various social media platforms to which they are posted.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2022

In February 2018, a Facebook researcher all but shut off the News Feed ranking algorithm for.05% At the same time, it did not alleviate teenagers’ social anxiety and young users did not share more photos” * NYT : Eating Disorders and Social Media Prove Difficult to Untangle. * The Algorithms. 05% of Facebook users.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 5, 2024

2, 2024) Some interesting comments on when individual instances of “confusion” don’t count, as well as their relevance to evaluating out-of-court social media etc. While multiple witnesses testified as to Plaintiff’s significant marketing and advertising efforts, that alone is not indicative of strength.

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Garrigues Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Yet all is not lost for those companies that did not incorporate ESG criteria from their very start, as they still have time to adapt to the new market demands, to set reasonable goals related with improving the environment and society and to accompany these goals with a persuasive story that helps boost their corporate reputations.

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