Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2021

Since 2014, they have sold a total of 7 units of apparel (5 of which were bought by the CEO’s friends). Aliign spent a lot of money on this lawsuit, seemingly far disproportionate to the amount of money they expect to make from sales of their own goods (they made only 2 independent sales since 2014). Google cases. Greenberg v.

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

Somewhat oddly, the court then says: To the extent that this approach to the false endorsement claim diverges from our caselaw involving false advertising, that result is consistent with the fact that the two types of claims are distinct. See Lexmark Int’l, Inc. Static Control Components, Inc., Compare 15 U.S.C. 1125(a)(1)(A), with id.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Lee , 1:13-CV-1464 AJT/JFA, 2014 WL 5500799, at *1 (E.D. 30, 2014) (parties “stipulated that the Court should resolve any material factual disputes without any further proceeding based on the summary judgment record.”). 8, 2016) (“The parties have agreed that. ”); Autodesk, Inc. ”).

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BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Fielding alleges that UChicago unlawfully used the image as commercial material to advertise and promote its programs. Fielding regularly licenses his photographs for commercial use, and the Work was created in 2014 and registered for copyright in January 2021.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The court applied the two-part test for subject matter eligibility under the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Alice Corp. There, “the claim recited a method for enabling an internet seller to pay a finder’s fee to a retail store when a customer finds the internet seller’s product through advertising in the retail store.”

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2023

Operation Gervais Local anti-piracy groups SACEM and ALPA filed a complaint against Zone-Telechargement in 2014. The goal was to identify financial accounts, assets, advertising agencies, and the site’s hosting servers. In the wake of the raid, it was claimed that Zone-Telechargement generated at least 1.5

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Petitioner sunk its own claim that its marks acquired distinctiveness in 2008 by testifying that its sales that year were $256; furthermore there were no advertising expenditures during 2008-2010. Its sales figures prior to 2014 (totaling $514,798) were "unimpressive." Read comments and post your comment here. Text Copyright John L.

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Registrant Harwood International enjoyed a constructive first use date of October 6, 2014, the filing date of its underlying application. Opposer JNF had filed an application to register its mark, with a claimed first use date "at least as early as October 10/00/2014." TMEP Section 903.06 (2022). Emphasis by the Board). See Couture v.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 12, 2023

Founded in 2014 by two Taiwanese software engineers, movie and TV show piracy site 8maple is a prime example. Initially, the site was promoted as a commercial advertising platform but soon transformed into a full-blown piracy portal pulling in millions of visitors each month and generating large sums in advertising revenue.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Regulators have sought to suppress online targeted advertising for years, with only minimal success. In turn, advertisers have fled Twitter. Then, in Liapes v. seriously, are you still posting THERE???) TikTok bans.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It would be as if an image within a newspaper advertisement were not commercially used until a customer paid their quarter, unlocked the newsrack, opened the paper, began reading, opened the page containing the relevant circular, and saw it. Code § 3344, which is predicated upon “knowing[ ] use[ ] … for purposes of advertising.”

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The owners eventually decided to let go of the name and in 2014 rebranded as Firedrive. That isn’t a lot, but these are all people searching for something specific, which makes them more likely to click on advertising feeds. 102,499 Auction. According to various estimates, Putlocker.com still has roughly 4,000 visitors per day.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

magna cum laude , from George Mason University School of Law in 2014 and his B.S., 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.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This case, where the legal holding is that the central advertising claims are just puffery, is a good illustration of the problem. Considering the overall advertising, the claims were too vague, nonspecific, and aspirational: “promote[ ] feelings of relaxation,” “help[ ] to maintain energy levels,” “can ease.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 2, 2023

Grenier Advertising IPTV Boxes This image from social media represents just the tip of a very large media iceberg that has kept Grenier in the public eye for years. All of these pale into insignificance in light of a story published in the Montreal Gazette in 2014.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 25, 2023

Originally posted 2014-03-14 10:41:00. Google and Geico have settled. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Google, Geico Good to Go appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The TTABlog

APRIL 2, 2024

Three Frog has been selling its dice box configuration since 2014 and sales have been substantially exclusive and have increased exponentially. It has advertised at gaming conventions and via social media, Google Ads, and social influencers. Three Frog has policed the mark and has received unsolicited media coverage.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 23, 2023

. “Linking websites that index and manage the links to content hosted on Megaup also benefit from the platform’s low compliance rate as these websites derive more traffic, and thus more advertising revenue, due to the durability of the Megaup links.” ESA lists nsw2u.com, Game3rb.com, Solidtorrents.to, and 1337x.to

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JULY 19, 2021

The first, owned by plaintiff/appellee, LHO Chicago River, LLC (“LHO”) was allegedly named in 2014. LHO filed suit for trademark infringement and unfair competition under the Lanham Act, deceptive advertising, and common-law trademark infringement under Illinois law. Practice Tip: Under Octane Fitness, LLC v.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 4, 2021

Innovative Cosmetic Concept filed for international registration of the word INCOCO and designated European Union for the registration in January 2014. The applicant Chanel opposed this mark in October 2014 and relied on its own earlier mark (French) nos. 1 438 544 and 1 571 046.

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43(B)log

MARCH 27, 2023

24, 2023) Courts in particular kinds of false advertising cases say that scientific claims are not falsifiable, even as the majority of workaday false advertising claims involving scientific fact are (correctly) treated as falsifiable. American Soc’y of Anesthesiologists, Inc., 4th -, 2023 WL 2621131, No. 22-1411 (3d Cir.

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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.”

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The court applied the two-part test for subject matter eligibility under the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Alice Corp. On appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s decision, holding that Elbaum’s claims were properly rejected under section 101 as directed to an abstract idea, not patent-eligible subject matter.

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43(B)log

APRIL 26, 2022

MaxRelief used to surce pain relief spray products in Australia from a non-party, but stopped in 2014. Painaway advertised its products as “Australia’s No. MaxRelief sells pain relief spray and cream through its website and through online distributors such as Amazon.com and retail pharmacies.

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43(B)log

JUNE 20, 2022

It has a 2014 registration for “Darkside NYC” for live musical performances by a band; the production of musical sound recordings; and websites with information about music or entertainment. The complaint showed otherwise: negotiations stopped in 2014. Defendants are a musical duo that also operates as Darkside and their record label.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The Plaintiffs highlighted specific instances where the Defendants falsely represented themselves as the Plaintiffs when applying for work for the Kenya Film Commission’s Technical Proposal KFC/OT/05/2013/2014 by using the Plaintiffs’ trademark ‘ACAL' without the Plaintiffs’ authority or consent.

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The TTABlog

MAY 16, 2023

Comptime spent about $13,000 per year on advertising, but the Board was not impressed with these relatively modest expenditures. TTABlogger comment: Shouldn't the Board be asking whether Comptime established acquired distinctiveness before respondent's first use date, which apparently was in 2014? Text Copyright John L. Welch 2023.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In 2014 the MPAA highlighted the activities of China-based YYeTs.com, a site known locally as Renren Yingshi. In the same period, Liang Yongping collected membership/subscription fees (“donations”) while money was also generated through advertising and the sale of hard disks containing unauthorized movies and TV shows.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

music synchronised in an advertisement) and adaptations (e.g. The Centre Pompidou Museum presented ‘Naked’ in 2014 in the framework of a retrospective exhibition of the work of Jeff Koons in Paris. The sculpture was presented in 2014 by the Centre Pompidou in the retrospective exhibition mentioned above. The parody defence.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 20, 2022

On November 7 th , Conde Nast sued Drake and 21 Savage for $4 million for false advertising and infringing Vogue’s trademarks. 2014: [link]. The court issued a preliminary injunction and the duo agreed to no longer use Vogue’s marks in connection with the album. Metaverse and NFT Filings Decrease. 2020: [link]. 2019: [link].

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Once the police have conducted their own investigations, any domain added to the IWL finds itself blacklisted by the advertising industry and then shared as part of the full list with other stakeholders, rightsholders, and anti-piracy groups. ” The IWL is Considered Secret, Police Refuse to Comment.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria Limited neglected to renew their contract with actor and filmmaker Adewole Ojo to use his photographs for advertisements. The defendant has used the plaintiff’s song in an advertisement without the plaintiff's consent. The company was ordered to pay Ojo, ₦20 million (US$44 448) in damages.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Advertising for 1XBET has appeared in thousands of pirate releases, most of them first-run movies. In one six month period alone, 1XBET ads appeared on 1,200 pirate sites and in 2019 the company was identified as having the third-largest advertising spend in Russia. Today, 1XBET remains synonymous with movie piracy.

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Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

JULY 3, 2021

Stark, who served the District of Delaware well as Chief Judge since 2014. Connolly became Chief Judge in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Chief Judge Connolly assumed the role from the Honorable Leonard P.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

In an example relating to generative AI in particular, the PTAB rejected claims directed to a neural network for creating advertisements as ineligible based in part on the absence of implementation details. 208 (2014)? See Ex parte Costello , Appeal 2021-000658 (PTAB June 7, 2021). See Ex parte Probell , Appeal 2021-003686 (Aug.

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43(B)log

MARCH 18, 2022

Fresh Bourbon allegedly falsely advertises that Fresh Bourbon is the “first black-owned bourbon distillery in Kentucky,” and makes other related false claims, which is allegedly false because it’s not a distillery, which requires both federal (TTB) and Kentucky (KABC) licenses. Fresh Bourbon counterclaimed for Lanham Act false advertising.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

AAA Alarm began in 1985, serving over 8000 customers across Arizona and spending nearly $200,000 since 2014. But once conceptual strength was set, the court pointed to the history of AAA Alarm’s advertising and present expenses of over $5000 a year on search engine optimization. Irreparable harm was also shown.

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