Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

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.

Advertising 85

Advertising Advertising False Advertising Trademark 85

TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

It’s perhaps fitting that sites that relied heavily on copying are being copied themselves; the original operators can hardly complain about that. In 2011 the file-hosting service was added to Hollywood’s list of notorious pirate sites and subsequently featured in the U.S. Putlocker.com.

Advertising 95

Advertising Advertising Copying Branding 95

43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

But Industria does not advertise or sell its Zenú or Ranchera products in the United States and there are no market surveys specific to the United States for Zenú or Ranchera. Advertisements made for Latinfood Zenú products used the phrase “una deliciosa tradición,” which translates to “a delicious tradition.”

False Advertising 59

False Advertising Advertising Advertising Registration 59

43(B)log

DECEMBER 26, 2022

for unlawfully manufacturing, importing, advertising, marketing, selling, and distributing unauthorized, counterfeit versions of its popular CAKE brand of hemp-derived Delta-8 products. The logo is registered with the Copyright Office, and AFK applied for trademark registration as well. AKF sued LCF etc. AT&T Mobility, LLC, 710 F.3d

Copyright Infringement 59

Copyright Infringement Branding Brands Branding 59

43(B)log

APRIL 28, 2022

He also hosted a reunion and golf tournament in 2007 and engaged in other referential activities; he managed royalties from the licensed USFL apparel from 2011-2021. They have also entered into numerous business partnerships and relationships for ticketing, advertising and apparel sales.” Plaintiff’s 1980s USFL registrations lapsed.

Licensing 45

Licensing Advertising Advertising Registration 45

IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our hard-working students and community members published more than twice as many articles than in 2020 and the most articles in a calendar year since 2011. Like most countries, Canada bars the registration of “clearly descriptive” trademarks to prevent applicants from monopolizing words that merely describe the goods or services at hand.

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IP Copyright Infringement Inventor Intellectual Property 106

The IPKat

JUNE 23, 2022

The High Court revoked four EASYOFFICE registrations owned by easyGroup for non-use and held that the Defendant’s use of EASYOFFICE was not an infringement of those registrations anyway owing to, amongst other things, the availability of an honest concurrent use defence. Muzmatch has since rebranded as Muzz.

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Branding Brands Branding Litigation 73