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Trademark Infringement 101: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Brand 

Corsearch

Trademark infringement is the nightmare that keeps big brands up at night. Imagine you’ve conjured up the hottest brand on the market – “Crispy Crunch Delights” , complete with a jazzy logo. ” They are selling what you sell, they are reaping the benefits of your brand, without doing any of the hard work. .”

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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. In 2016, L'Oréal changed the packaging for its Kérastase products. On 8 July 2019, Ms Y unsuccessful addressed a cease-and-desist letter to L'Oréal.

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March Madness: Basketball, Brackets, and Branding

LexBlog IP

The NCAA takes a proactive approach to protecting its intellectual property, often sending cease-and-desist letters to those it believes are infringing on its rights. For example, in 2016, the NCAA filed a lawsuit against a company that was using the phrase “April Madness” to promote its own events.

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LimeWire to Return to Sell NFTs

Plagiarism Today

In their statement, Julian Zehetmayer said, “We’ve obviously got this great mainstream brand that everybody’s nostalgic about. The company ceased operations after the RIAA sent them a cease and desist letter. In July 2016, Rhapsody rebranded itself as Napster , dropping the previous name completely.

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Jean Paul Gaultier, Birth Your Own Venus

IPilogue

French fashion brand Jean Paul Gaultier’s garments featuring Botticelli’s Birth of Venus are heading off the rack and to legal battle. In April 2022 , Uffizi sent a cease-and-desist in response to Jean Paul Gaultier’s current use of the Birth of Venus , but the fashion brand never replied and continued its unauthorized use. .

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Airline Sues to Stop Popular Web-Scraping Service–American Airlines v. The Points Guy (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

TPG is a service built around the brand of a world-traveling man sipping champagne in first class, selling to the world his knowledge of the best rewards programs for credit cards and flights. On January 9th, American Airlines sent TPG a cease-and-desist letter. dispute back in the Ninth Circuit in 2016. Facebook v.

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If copyright law won’t protect small fashion brands against copying, social media will – just ask influencer Danielle Bernstein

JIPEL Copyright Blog

Danielle Bernstein is a 28-year-old New York City influencer and founder of the brand We Wore What (“WWW”). TGE claimed Bernstein copied their signature pattern of nude female silhouette line drawings, which had been printed on their tissue paper since the store’s inception in 2016. In this case, via alleged copyright infringement.