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maintaining ex-employees' voicemail/email doesn't violate Lanham Act or right of publicity

43(B)log

2004), in which the defendant continued to run an infomercial after its agreement with the individual plaintiff, Lundin, featured in the infomercial expired. That is, the likeness must be distributed to members of the public in a way calculated to bring in money. There are no allegations of such use here.” The court cited Mktg.

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Biosimilars 2020 Year in Review

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

The biosimilar pathway was designed to increase competition for biologics and reduce healthcare costs. Note that FDA still has not designated any biosimilar as interchangeable to its reference product. As noted above, companies are already taking advantage of these new designations. Introduction. Federal Legislation.