43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

3, 2021) The parties compete in the market for custom landscape design services. “[I]n Natorp’s removed all of his photos from its website shortly after he complained, but the photos allegedly remained “online at various social media outlets including Natorp’s private website, Facebook, and Pinterest.” McCleese v. Natorp’s, Inc.,

Copying 64

Copying False Advertising Social Media Advertising 64

Michael Geist

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Liberal government committed in the 2019 election campaign to a digital services tax primarily designed to target large U.S. technology companies that generate significant revenues in Canada from online advertising and user data. that threatens to retaliate with tariffs on sensitive sectors of the economy.

Social Media 90

Social Media Advertising Advertising Government 90

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The transition from simply turning on the television to logging into accounts such as social media and OTT platforms, has resulted the entertainment industry to witness an astonishing evolution. The surveillance on viewing the habit of individuals is often used to advertise similar targeted content.

Privacy 91

Privacy Social Media Advertising Advertising 91

The IPKat

MARCH 27, 2022

A very popular design of one of these boots is based on a traditional Spanish riding boot - the Regina boot or Heeled Regina - which looks like the below (and for a closer look click here ). Although their products have the "country" look and feel about them, the products aren't designed for serious country wear.

Designs 52

Designs Design Copying Art 52

TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These days it’s more likely for those sales to be organized on social media, which happily broadcast illegal sales to the whole world while logging everything for posterity. There had also been a significant delay in bringing the case to a close following their arrests in 2019. Fraud, Copyright and Money Laundering.

Intellectual Property 97

Intellectual Property Social Media Reporting Copyright 97

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.

Government 104

Government Social Media Law Music 104

Trading Secrets

MARCH 22, 2022

But for famed wedding dress designer, Hayley Paige Gutman, she certainly is ruing the Second Circuit’s recent decision to revive its 1999 holding of Ticor Title Ins. JLM”), to serve as a wedding, bridesmaid, and evening gown dress designer for JLM. As is often true in fashion, what once was old is now new again. Cohen , 173 F.3d

Social Media 59

Social Media Contracts Confidentiality Business 59

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Nintendo also obtained a UK High Court injunction to block four Team-Xecuter-related websites back in 2019 but that did little to stop pirated game ROMs from being shared online. In an injunction application dated December 2, 2021, Nintendo requested a website blocking order under section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Social Media 139

Social Media Artwork Copyright Reporting 139

Michael Geist

MARCH 22, 2023

The issue dates back to the 2019 election campaign with a campaign promise to institute a digital services tax primarily designed to target large U.S. technology companies that generate significant revenues in Canada from online advertising and user data. Canadians can expect to hear more about this issue in next week’s budget.

Advertising 114

Advertising Advertising Social Media Business 114

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

These reports allegedly caused advertisers to pause their Twitter advertising campaigns, starving Twitter of much-needed revenues. The court says there are no general damages because the alleged damages (loss of advertiser revenue) “do not flow directly and necessarily from CCDH’s breach of the ToS’s scraping provision.”

Litigation 86

Litigation Contracts Advertising Advertising 86

43(B)log

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

2, 2022) Before the jury verdict in favor of Monster’s false advertising claim was this opinion resolving evidentiary issues. Critiques about “issues of methodology, survey design, reliability, the experience and reputation of the expert, critique of conclusions, and the like go to the weight of the survey rather than its admissibility.”

False Advertising 59

False Advertising Advertising Advertising Social Media 59

The TTABlog

JUNE 11, 2021

In re Sausser Summers, PC , 2021 USPQ2d 618, (TTAB 2021) [re-designated as precedential] (Opinion by Judge Christopher Larkin). In the absence of supporting evidence, we cannot find that Applicant has advertised extensively."

Social Media 40

Social Media Advertising Advertising Business 40

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

The plaintiffs asserted products liability and related claims against Snap, on the premise that Snap “is an inherently dangerous software product that Defendants deceptively advertise and promote in a way that facilitates sex crimes against children.” Publisher/Speaker Claims. Citing Doe v. ” Third-Party Content.

Blogging 88

Blogging Social Media Editing Designs 88

43(B)log

JULY 20, 2023

for deceptive advertising of dietary supplements in violation of the FTCA and the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act. Since early 2020, Defendant Nepute and Quickwork have used several platforms, including social media, emails, and radio, to tout the purported benefits of Vitamin D and zinc and to promote Wellness Warrior supplements. ”

Government 52

Government Advertising Advertising Social Media 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

MAGA state legislatures around the country have responded to his dog-whistles with laws such as the Texas and Florida social media censorship bills. Using doctrines like publicity rights, plaintiffs are attacking how these services advertise by featuring people in the yearbooks and the vending of yearbook access. Malwarebytes.

Social Media 124

Social Media Blogging Designs Design 124

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

WCT’s app was first released in 2014 for the iPhone and Pebble watch as a metric-tracking cycling app that was designed to “track speed, distance, altitude, and grade.” Around June 2019, he was nearing completion of a new app, but Apple announced a new Apple Watch operating system, requiring a change in development.

Marketing 59

Marketing Marketing Trademark Branding 59

LexBlog IP

MARCH 1, 2023

The rapid rise of AI used with advertising, marketing and other consumer facing applications has caused the FTC to continue to take notice and issues guidance. The following is some recent FTC guidance to consider when referencing AI in your advertising. It has issued AI-related guidance in the past.

Social Media 52

Social Media Advertising Advertising Technology 52

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

” Dark patterns are deceptive tactics or design patterns that impair people’s autonomy, decision-making, or choice to force them to do something. Consumer rights abuses, deceptive advertising, and unfair commercial practices are examples. Shakespeare’s utopian visionary quote “what’s kept in a name”?

Personality Rights 62

Personality Rights Privacy Social Media Intellectual Property 62

SpicyIP

MAY 20, 2024

Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009. SpicyIP Tidbit: Delhi High Court grants an Ex-parte Ad interim Injunction to Designer Gaurav Gupta On DHC’s recent interim injunction to designer Gaurav Gupta, Surabhi highlights the problem with the Court’s one glove fits all approach in this tidbit.

Trademark 45

Trademark Advertising Advertising Copyright 45

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The court summarizes the allegations: Plaintiffs John Doe #1 and John Doe #2 allege that when they were thirteen years old they were solicited and recruited for sex trafficking and manipulated into providing to a third-party sex trafficker pornographic videos (“the Videos”) of themselves through the social media platform Snapchat.

Blogging 109

Blogging Publishing Social Media Advertising 109

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. Defendant had not obtained the Deposit Design from the Copyright Office. Defendant had not tried to find out why Amazon kept reinstating Plaintiff’s listing.

Registration 112

Registration Fair Use Copyright Designs 112

Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The company has brought over 300 cases since 2017, often using copyrighted product images as a technical hook to shut down undesired resellers who advertise its products at below retail prices. But some dude steals my junk and pimps it for 120k+ in 2019. d/b/a Topdon is entirely next level. Talk about a tattoo fail. Plagiarism much?”

Copyright 83

Copyright Art Licensing Social Media 83

SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Supreme Court looked into a wide variety of issues such as oxygen and Covid-19 drugs shortage, equitable pricing of vaccines, protection of health workers, possibility of invoking compulsory licenses and the clampdown on free speech on social media platforms. Merck Sharp and Dohme v. SMS Pharmaceuticals [Delhi High Court].

IP 143

IP Intellectual Property Copyright Trademark 143

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The Court noted that the Patents Act is specifically designed to deal with matters concerning allegations of unreasonable conditions in licence agreements, abuse of one’s status as a patentee, the necessary inquiry into these allegations, and eventually the relief that can be granted. Controller of Patents & Designs Patent Office Mumbai.

IP 124

IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 124

LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

29] In its 47-page complaint, which included claims of trademark infringement, false designation of origin, trademark dilution, cybersquatting, and injury to business reputation and dilution under New York General Business Law, Hermès claimed that Rothschild “rip[ped] off Hermès’ famous BIRKIN trademark” to “get rich quick.”.

Non-Fungible Tokens 52

Non-Fungible Tokens Social Media Contracts Branding 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

trafficking when they enter into agreements with traffickers to share proceeds of advertisement revenue earned from child pornography videos posted to their websites, and actively employ tactics to make it difficult for law enforcement to locate traffickers. ” Benefit from the venture. Scienter about sex trafficking. Ruling #1: A.B.

Blogging 121

Blogging Reporting Publishing Law 121

IIPRD

JANUARY 18, 2022

Trademark infringement may arise where an unauthorized party mints an NFT linked to the underlying asset, without the asset owner’s permission, and advertises, offers for sale, and/or sells the NFT using the asset owner’s registered trademarks. Gucci has offered new products as an NFT last year, including one-of-a-kind sneakers.

Non-Fungible Tokens 40

Non-Fungible Tokens Intellectual Property Ownership Branding 40

LexBlog IP

JUNE 21, 2023

2294 (2019), and even Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. As the holiday approached this year, it seemed the term “Juneteenth” was everywhere – in broadcast and local media, in advertisements and on social media. It also intersects with several recent Supreme Court decisions, such as Matal v.

Registration 52

Registration Trademark Trademark Law Law 52