Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Introduction Uptik in Threat Letters & Legal Actions: A Wake-Up Call for Companies Using Meta Pixel In recent years, the digital landscape has become a battleground for privacy rights, with Meta Pixel at the epicenter of numerous legal disputes. alleges violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act among other claims.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 1, 2022

Last month, as part of BakerHostetler’s “Look Back, Look Ahead: Advertising and Marketing Law in 2021 & 2022” webinar series, partners Craig A. 4: Early Opioid Medication Litigation Rulings Favor Advertisers. 5: Marketing to Minors. The following summarizes our 10 key takeaways from 2021.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Introduction Uptik in Threat Letters & Legal Actions: A Wake-Up Call for Companies Using Meta Pixel In recent years, the digital landscape has become a battleground for privacy rights, with Meta Pixel at the epicenter of numerous legal disputes. alleges violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act among other claims.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Dark patterns were also specifically called out in a number of new state privacy laws. A recently released FTC staff report on dark patterns indicates that this focus is only growing, and that dark patterns can encompass a wide range of common marketing practices – from urgency offers to fee disclosures.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media. In addition to regularly reviewing IP assets, a company should regularly make sure that its privacy and data use policies comport with the manner in which it collects and uses customer and employee data.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

.” With respect to policy, the majority goes property-absolutist: “Because state property rights can facilitate market exchange, interpreting the § 230(e)(2) limitation to include state intellectual property laws tracks Congress’s pro-free-market goal.” I even agree with the latter point!)

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LexBlog IP

MAY 6, 2022

And all signs indicate that the agency will initiate rulemaking on some as-yet-undefined privacy issues once (and if) Alvaro Bedoya gets confirmed as the fifth commissioner. The FTC voted out two documents that discuss the 114 comments that were filed back in 2014 when the rulemaking was initiated. With that, we turn to the TSR.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Read literally, all advertising “allow[s] for arranging the sale or purchase of goods,” so this law potentially obligates EVERY ad-supported publisher to undertake the content moderation obligations the bill imposes on online marketplaces. ” [Does this create an affirmative obligation to include images?

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For some time now, dark patterns have been quite the trending topic for both marketers and privacy professionals. But back here, other than high-level, broad definitions that could theoretically deem advertising itself a dark pattern, there has been a lack of clarity on the issue.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

CNN : Mark Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta’s proposals to improve teen mental health, court documents allege * WSJ : Facebook Wanted Out of Politics. Defendants deny that the Resort targets Massachusetts or its residents with advertising. The Resort, they attest, “targeted divers.”

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media. In addition to regularly reviewing IP assets, a company should regularly make sure that its privacy and data use policies comport with the manner in which it collects and uses customer and employee data.

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IP Intellectual Property Social Media Cease and Desist 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

And even though the creators of popular services know, and you know, and I know, and the Supreme Court knows , and every judge that decides every opinion on these issues knows, that no one is reading these documents, the legal system has collectively decided this system sufficient to bind everyone to a legal agreement.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The court noted that via previous order in September 2022, the Appellant was allowed to place user documents on record and vide this order directed it to file an affidavit of user and remanded the matter back to the Registry for considering the claim of prior use afresh. Khan Chacha Hyderabadi Biryani and Ors.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The risks include unauthorised use and infringement, technological obsolescence, and the marketable nature of IP as collateral. A short-form trademark security agreement which avoids the disclosure of terms of the loan is also recommended while filing documents in the USPTO to protect the privacy of the debtor. Objective 5.11.1

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