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Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? Some Perspectives

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We are pleased to bring to you a guest post by Roshan Santhalia ruminating on the question of whether a cease-and-desist notice before instituting a trademark or copyright infringement suit should be issued or not. Hons) LLB from NALSAR, Hyderabad in 2011 and MSc from Oxford, UK in 2012. He completed his B.A.

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Insights from the Global Online Thesis Topic Meetings

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She received a cease-and-desist notice from the photographer Michael Halsband, directing her to destroy the artwork. Guadamuz was a critic of NFTs since 2011 and only got involved in their trade to understand what the fuss was all about. He authored “ The Treachery of Images: Non-fungible Tokens and Copyright ”.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2011) (citing to ProCD in rejecting preemption in the context of a Desny claim). And to characterize zero-click online terms of use that are imposed by cease-and-desist letter as enforceable contracts is horrible policy and bad law. There is certainly an argument that the Ninth Circuit has adopted the logic of ProCD v.

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ITC Litigation: Introduction to Trade Secret Protection at the ITC

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

the ITC can also issue cease and desist orders to prevent further sales of the accused products. This is achieved through an exclusion order , which is typically “limited”, i.e. , applying only to the named respondent. [6] 6] For respondents with commercially significant inventory in the U.S., or Relating to Same & Certain Prods.

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Meeting of the Minds: The Price of Recklessness: Disgorgement of Pro?ts in a Post-Romag World

The IP Law Blog

Expect more cease and desist letters referencing the Supreme Court’s explicit clarification in Romag when threatening to seek profits against merely knowing, reckless, or even innocent infringers. 21 In a 2011 survey conducted by the U.S. 4226, at 3-32 (May 2011), [link]. litigation in U.S. 1045 (2018). Economy, Inv.

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

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SMRI ultimately sent one C&D in August 2006, and filed suit in June 2011. The laches defense is not available “when the defendant knew that the plaintiff objected to the use of the mark,” as “[a]ny acts after receiving a cease and desist letter are at the defendant’s own risk.” apart from the mark as shown.”

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Game On! Bright Data Scores Major Victory in Web-Scraping Dispute with Meta (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

4, 2011)) (emphasis in original). precedent, could Meta just amend its terms, send another cease-and-desist, and revisit this, or does this case repudiate that whole line of precedent? The 2009 Facebook Terms included the following clause: “accessing or using our website. signif[ies] that you. agree to be bound by these Terms.