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maintaining outdated article on website about former supplier wasn't false association

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Whole Foods began purchasing small quantities of basil from them and selling the product in Whole Foods Market stores in the San Diego area in 2007. False advertising: Plaintiffs didn’t plausibly plead a false or misleading statement in a commercial advertisement or promotion.

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"Krab mix" plausibly misleads as to crab content

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This is consistent with trademark doctrine, which considers misspellings identical in meaning because consumers can't necessarily spell.) Kellogg USA, 2007 WL 4766060 (C.D. 19, 2007), which held that the “Froot” in “Froot Loops” was not misleading in part because it “appear[ed] in the trademarked name of the cereal, not.

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Cracks in the foundation: Laches and proximate cause defeat auto glass false advertising claim

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In 2007, ANSI approved windshield industry repair standards, the Repair of Laminated Automotive Glass Standards (ROLAGS), that stated windshield cracks up to fourteen inches are repairable. Safelite counterclaimed for trade secret theft not related to advertising. can be safe and is viable.”

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Third Circuit Says Section 230 Doesn’t Apply to Publicity Rights Claims–Hepp v. Facebook

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In 2007, the Ninth Circuit in Perfect 10 v. This leads to a twisted conclusion that dictionaries include trademarks as IP (not surprisingly), so “that inclusion implies the right to publicity by analogy [because] the right of publicity and trademark are close analogues.” I even agree with the latter point!)