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Concept Of Trademark Bullying: Forceful Enforcement Of Trademark Rights In The Name Of Protection

IP and Legal Filings

The modus operandi of bullying and legal threats which are baseless by large entities gets initiated by serving a cease and desist notice which contains threats of instituting a trademark infringement suit. Further the defendants were also restrained from issuing any other baseless threats. [3]

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Failure to comply with the terms of a copyright assignment agreement held to amount to copyright infringement in France

The IPKat

A Kat while using à L'Oréal shampoo Facts Between 2013 and 2015, L'Oréal asked Ms Y to take photographs of products in its KERASTASTE brand ranges. On 8 July 2019, Ms Y unsuccessful addressed a cease-and-desist letter to L'Oréal. The disputed uses extending from 2015 to 2018 had been regularised.

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Two DJ Music Piracy Cases Five Years Apart, Two Very Different Outcomes

TorrentFreak

BREIN certainly doesn’t shy away from taking matters to court but whenever it can, settlements and an agreement to cease and desist can be enough to ward off more serious action. While BREIN has been hinting at criminal prosecutions for a while, the anti-piracy group tends to focus on civil actions.

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Registering Product Design and the Functional Limitation

Patently-O

” In 2015 Timberland began the process of registering the boot design as a trademark. Timberland boots have been on the market for 50 years, and according to the record the company has “never has demanded that competitors cease and desist from selling look-alike boots.”

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TOS Supports Injunction Against Web Scraping–Southwest Airlines v. Kiwi

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

It sent Kiwi cease and desist letters and has implemented security measures, but “Kiwi has continued to hack the Southwest website and sell Southwest flights without permission.”. In addition, Southwest sent Kiwi several cease and desist letters. The terms are presented next to the purchase button.

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ACE Finally Seizes Pirate Streaming Domains After Years of Legal Action

TorrentFreak

In 2015 it found itself among the top 250 most popular pirate sites in the world meaning that it would remain on Hollywood’s hit list. With Afdah increasing in popularity, in 2015 the Motion Picture Association obtained a High Court injunction compelling the UK’s leading ISPs to block Afdah.com.

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Recent SEC Order Reiterates Need for Affirmative Whistleblower Exclusion

Trading Secrets

Since 2015, the SEC has brought at least 14 enforcement actions involving Exchange Rule 21F-17(a). The action arose because, between April 2015 and April 2019, Brinks used an employee confidentiality agreement that prohibited employees from disclosing confidential company information to any third party without Brinks’ prior written approval.