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Africa IP highlights 2023: Copyright

The IPKat

Another December is here which means “The Africa IP Highlights” are here! The Africa IP Highlights is an initiative of this Kat and is a series of posts put together to highlight some of the key developments in IP in Africa each year. Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2022, here. Katpost on that here.

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Harpic v. Domex:Product disparagement or nominative fair use?

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Advertising is an important strategy for a company to sell its products to the customer. Advertising generated awareness about a particular product in among the masses and the reaction of the masses decides the fate of the product. To increase their sales, often companies indulge themselves in comparative advertising.

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Africa IP highlights 2022 #1: Copyright matters

The IPKat

The Africa IP Highlights! The Africa IP Highlights is an initiative of this Kat and is a series of posts put together to highlight some of the key developments in IP in Africa each year. Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2021, here. It’s December and time for.drumroll.

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Preventing Trademark Infringement or Stifling Healthy Competition? A Look at 1-800 Contacts and its Keyword Advertising Battle

LexBlog IP

It is difficult to remember a time when keyword advertising did not dominate the internet. Most search engines, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, maintain keyword advertising programs which allow advertisers to bid on search terms and keywords that drive customers searching for a particular product or service to their website.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Regulators have sought to suppress online targeted advertising for years, with only minimal success. In turn, advertisers have fled Twitter. IP & Innovation L. Then, in Liapes v.

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Think Keyword Metatags Are Dead? They Are (Except in Court)–Reflex v. Luxy

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court recounts the perennially problematic Brookfield case and how the 2004 Playboy v. Plus, does this mean that rival apps can’t advertise themselves as rivals or engage in comparative advertising because the app stores aren’t properly labeling the ads, even if the advertisers are engaging in nominative use?

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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

Trademark infringement has grown more complex and pervasive, ranging from counterfeit goods to digital squatting and keyword advertising. While keyword advertising uses trademarked words to divert customers, cybersquatting involves acquiring domain names to benefit from trademarks. Case Study: Satyam Infoway Ltd.