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Dastar bars false advertising claim against "first of its kind" ads

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were not designed to protect originality or creativity.” “Yet Yet that is precisely what Plaintiff seeks to protect in this case: the originality and novelty of its own cooler design.” CV 09-02235 ABC PLAX, 2009 WL 8714439, at *1 (C.D. Zobmondo Ent. Imagination Int’l Corp., The court here disagreed.

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Gema USA, Inc. Sues Former Employee for Alleged Patent & Trademark Infringement

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According to the complaint, Gema is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of electrostatic powder coating control units, and powder feed systems. according to their website, was formed by Monte McClung in 2009 after a 20 year Career at Gema. The Design Patents are for a variety of powder guns and spray equipment.

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

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Lanham Act false advertising: Failing to delete email and voicemail accounts is not “commercial advertising or promotion.” Omissions and inactions of this sort do not constitute either ordinary advertising or “a systematic communicative endeavor to persuade possible customers to buy the seller’s product.” Hippo Golf Co.,

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when is a trademark licensee's use of a TM deceptive to consumers?

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However, Black & Decker did not in fact design, manufacture, distribute, or warrant the coffeemaker. The district court certified a class of those who purchased the coffeemaker at a New Mexico Wal-Mart store from 2009 to 2013, approximately 40,600 members. The coffeemaker evidently proved unsatisfactory, and the Pumas sued.

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trial court erred by presuming materiality of black box warning; $834 million penalty vacated

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The state alleged that Plavix was less effective in patients who had certain liver-enzyme mutations, and that defendants knew this fact years before 2009, when the FDA updated Plavix’s label with information about the issue. In 2009, a BMS employee wrote: [I]t looks like we are into stalling some more.

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 17 Attorneys to Principal 

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Vivian Cheng focuses her practice on trademark and copyright litigation and also counsels clients on a broad range of issues relating to trademark, trade dress, and copyright protection and enforcement, unfair competition, and false advertising. with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009.

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Overreaching and delay lead to defeat of TM owner's claims

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were valid and infringed, but the latter wasn’t counterfeited; SMRI’s dilution victory was vacated, but not its victories on deceptive trade practices, ACPA, false advertising, and unfair competition. The Composite Design Mark registration specifically acknowledged that it made “no claim. apart from the mark as shown.”