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Court Denies Injunction in Competitive Keyword Ad Lawsuit–Nursing CE Central v. Colibri

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is a competitive keyword advertising lawsuit. The plaintiff has a trademark registration for the “Nursing CE Central” mark for providing continuing education for nurses. This is fine, but it deviates from courts’ efforts over the years to come up with multi-factor variations specific to keyword advertising.

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Google’s Search Disambiguation Doesn’t Create Initial Interest Confusion–Aliign v. lululemon

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Aliign “is an event, lifestyle, and apparel company” allegedly with a first trademark use in 2011. More Posts About Keyword Advertising. Ohio Bans Competitive Keyword Advertising by Lawyers. Want to Engage in Anti-Competitive Trademark Bullying? lululemon is the well-known yoga gear company.

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Journey Through “Octobers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present) 

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Xiaomi highlighting how the common practice of courts granting confidentiality in commercial litigation problematizes transparency, judicial accountability, and the citizens’ right to be informed of court processes and reasoning under Article 19(1)(a). Only then does Google need to take action against the advertisement and not otherwise.

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

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The court starts its trademark analysis nostalgically: “Turn back the clock to the Internet’s nascent age—1999.” Netscape and 2011 Network Automation cases modified it. More Posts About Keyword Advertising. Google. * Competitive Keyword Advertising Still Isn’t Trademark Infringement, Unless….