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Rival Boston Cider Companies Enter Trade Secret Dispute

Trading Secrets

Boston Beer is a brewer and marketer of beers, malt beverages, and hard ciders, known for its Samuel Adams and Angry Orchard products. Downeast is a rival maker and marketer of similar products, namely its eponymous cider. Shortly thereafter, he became a Senior Vice President of Marketing at Downeast.

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Rival Boston Cider Companies Enter Trade Secret Dispute

LexBlog IP

Boston Beer is a brewer and marketer of beers, malt beverages, and hard ciders, known for its Samuel Adams and Angry Orchard products. Downeast is a rival maker and marketer of similar products, namely its eponymous cider. Shortly thereafter, he became a Senior Vice President of Marketing at Downeast.

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Some Thoughts on the “Fairness” of the Delhi High Court’s Ericsson-Lava FRAND Determination- Part II

SpicyIP

Was it a conscious call, owing to the excessive confidentiality concerns? But the device models are in the market already, so was this an accidental omission on part of the Court? There are two issues with the decision in this regard i.e. first, it does not specify the exact standards in the case. D Link Systems Inc and Ors.

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Synergy Between Ipr And E-Commerce Platforms

IIPRD

of the population of India having ingress to the world wide web and ever growing e-commerce market which is forecasted to reach about twenty billion euros by 2030, it becomes pertinent to analyse the interconnect between these two. [1] Signing confidentiality agreements also are one of the ways of protection. [8]

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[Guest post] High Court reins in polo-themed trade mark claims

The IPKat

Veteran IPKat readers may remember this 2015 blog post covering Lifestyle’s opposition against RCB’s application to register a previous version of their logo as an EUTM. It is worth noting that the parties had agreed that all allegations of trade mark infringement were to be determined by the application of UK/EU law, regardless of territory.

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CRT and Heineken amicably end their dispute over the use of the word "Tequila" in Desperados beer

The IPKat

Although the terms remain confidential, Miguel highlighted that the agreement is beneficial to both parties and that “ Tequila ” continues to be strongly protected in the European Union [its second-largest export market after the USA].

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2015, it extended the “Align” mark to yoga apparel, which has generated $1B in sales. If they really wanted to build their business, they could have invested that money into marketing instead of legal fees. Consistent with that, Aliign is spending more marketing dollars to appeal this lawsuit to the Ninth Circuit.