LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” The dispute dates back to 2014 when Jack Daniel’s sent a series of cease and desist letters to the toy company. In 2018 a district court judge ruled that the toy infringed Jack Daniel’s trademarks. The dog toy made by VIP Products LLC parodies Jack Daniel’s famous bottle, replacing “Old No.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2022

In the summer of 2018, a report from anti-piracy company Irdeto examined the payment processing abilities of 400 pirate IPTV supplier sites. The big question then is how the situation has changed since the 2018 Irdeto report. Improvement Over 2018 But Not Enough, Says AAPA. and Visa closely behind with 14.1%.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 8, 2021

Registration was obtained in March 2018 by decision of the Opposition Division following an unsuccessful opposition filed by Aeroporto di Villanova d’Albenga SpA (Riviera-Airport) (the applicant), which was named Aeroporto Villanova d’Albenga SpA at the time of the opposition.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2022

These were blocked by ISPs following a legal process in Singapore in 2018. In many similar cases the studios’ investigators have been able to find out the real identities of site owners and contact them directly with an order to cease and desist. and Afdah.to.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 6, 2022

United Media Joined AAPA in 2018. In 2018, United Media joined the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) which counts Sky, Discovery, Viaccess, Vodafone, Bein Sports Canal+, Premier League, LaLiga and Liberty Global among its member members. ACE Has Experience in Key Areas.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2017 and 2018, its lawyers wrote to them several times, demanding that they cease and desist. Carried out with the assistance of a cybercrime investigative service (Activision declines to name it on security grounds), Activision managed to identify a small number of defendants.

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The IPKat

JUNE 23, 2023

Mercredie claimed that the campaign was based on photographs taken from her social networks, in particular one published on her Instagram story on 27 July 2018. As a result, Mercredie sent a cease-and-desist letter to the French brand on 16 September 2019.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The sites’ Russian owner Tofig Kurbanov was taken to court in the United States in 2018, accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement. Plaintiffs also sent infringement notices and cease-and-desist letters to Defendant, yet he has continued to infringe their copyrights,” Judge Buchanan writes. Registered DMCA Agent.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Mr Cuny sent several cease-and-desist letters to Mr Rampazzi and his company on 23 May and 3 July 2018. Mr Cuny noted that Mr Rampazzi had posted several photographs on his Facebook and Instagram accounts promoting himself with a slightly modified version of the "Lyre" lamp, without any authorisation or mention of his name.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Injunctive relief (Section 97(1) UrhG) and cease and desist agreements. The BGH stated in 2018 that when interpreting (contractual) cease and desist agreements in cases of doubt cease and desist obligation must be interpreted as meaning that its effect has the same scope as the statutory claim for injunctive relief.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 19, 2022

Shazam brought action against the defendants in 2019 following two rounds of cease and desist letters to prevent their continued performance of an unlicensed interactive dining show.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2018 the court sided with BREIN , noting that when Leaper Beheer BV, Growler BV, DITisTV and their respective directors distributed the playlist, they made the linked content available to a ‘new audience’ beyond that envisioned by the copyright holders. BREIN says the defendants were also required to pay a settlement fee.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JULY 12, 2021

According to the Complaint, Jarman was then elected to the positions of Vice President of Operations and Chief Operating Officer in March 2018. While Watch has sent cease and desist letters to each of the co-defendants, they have allegedly not ceased their unlawful activities.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Court ordered LinkedIn to withdraw its cease-and-desist letter, to remove any existing technical barriers to hiQ’s access to LinkedIn members’ public profiles, and to refrain from erecting any legal or technical barriers that block hiQ’s access to those profiles. Whatever the reason, hiQ started winding down operations in 2018.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 28, 2022

In July 2018, Waber left Stryker to work at DePuy, an HOC competitor, in violation of the non-compete clause in his employment agreement. The contract included a one-year non-compete clause and a forum-selection and choice-of-law clause requiring contract disputes to be adjudicated in New Jersey under New Jersey law.

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 11, 2022

The case started in October 2018, when the sponsor of the festival, in order to advertise that Golpes Bajos would be playing, decided to publish a poster on social media, which included the name and a photograph of the deceased lead singer of the band. The exception set forth in article 8.1

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

This pattern begins as far back as May of 2018, when Bernstein was accused of copying pieces from several smaller jewelry lines for a collaboration she did with Nordstrom. They first called out Bernstein on their Instagram stories and privately sent her and We Wore What a cease and desist letter in August 2020.

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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

32] RuneLite HD only shut down in the first place due to a cease and desist letter from the publisher. 24, 2018), [link]. [4] 6] Alex Seedhouse, Pokémon Prism Cancelled After Nintendo Deliver Cease And Desist Letter, Nintendo Insider, (Dec 22, 2016), [link]. [7] 18, 2018), [link]. [8] 24, 2018), [link]. [4]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The wranglings caused the registrant’s sticker to be removed from Amazon for a total of 44 days in 2018 across several different incidents. Before November 19, 2018, the previous takedown notices to Amazon didn’t violate 512(f) because the successor licensee didn’t have the requisite bad intent.

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SpicyIP

JULY 13, 2023

What about cases where the patentee is not instituting a suit for infringement, but is asserting its ‘non-working’ patent rights on small-time players by issuing a cease and desist notice? While that level of scrutiny is not yet happening on our domestic front, here are perhaps some basic starting points to initiate such discussions.

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Intepat

JUNE 5, 2023

Background In 2018, PhonePe sent a cease and desist notice to the Defendant, requesting that they cease using the brand name with the ‘Pe’ component written in the Devanagari script.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 18, 2021

It doesn’t start well for SMRI: While the 2006 cease and desist letter’s statement [that SMRI had a registered mark] was true as it relates to the Composite Design Mark [the long one above + design], SMRI’s suggestion that registration for STURGIS had been approved was not true and was deceptive. … apart from the mark as shown.”

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 28, 2023

Bharti Airtel 2018, Apex Court ruled that prior to addressing considerations of competition, sectoral regulators will be required to rule on matters falling under their scope but there’s still scope for harmonization. Lastly, the horizons of Big Tech often led to a jurisdictional tussle between CCI and other sectoral regulators.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2022

Background – Nintendo’s Unreleased ‘Mario Movie’ In 2018, Nintendo announced a collaboration with film and animation studio Illumination (Minions, Despicable Me) to produce a new ‘Mario’ movie. We might have one of those today.

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The TTABlog

JULY 29, 2021

In 2018, petitioner terminated its arrangement with respondent. Respondent, who then sent a cease-and-desist letter to petitioner, prompting the subject petition for cancellation. Nema Foods claimed to have an "understanding" with petitioner that Nema would own the trademark, but it provided no evidence to support that claim.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

IP Financing in India – Part II: The Supreme Court and (mis)interpretation of Banking Regulation Act, 1949 Part II of the two-part guest post by Bharat Harne on IP Financing in India focuses on the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Canara Bank v N.G.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? I predict a cease and desist letter”; “I WILL DEFINITELY BE CONTACTING NICKOLODEON TO ASK IF THIS GHETTO PLACE HAVE THE RIGHTS.”.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 6, 2022

Few opponents prefer to jump straight into court action, with oppositions typically the preference when a cease and desist letter fails to get the right reaction. Is this a new cause of action for us trade mark lawyers to start waving around? Thanks to my colleague Lauren Stone for helping me collate this volume.

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SpicyIP

MAY 15, 2023

1 applied for the registration of “MGalin” in 2018 with false user data of 7th January 2003, to which the respondent failed to adduce any evidence to rebut the assertion. They further argued that they had issued a cease and desist notice on 6th November, 2020 to which no response was received.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Tam ” (2018), and my guest post on Eric Goldman’s Technology and Marketing Law Blog written after the Federal Circuit’s decision in In re Elster.) Registering a political phrase or other non-source-identifying message as a mark for clothing actually stifles more protected speech than the denial of that registration.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

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. 1045 (2018). 20, 2018), [link] intellectual-property-rights-yes-really. 31 Such improvements may give U.S. concurring).

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Regardless, it sent a cease and desist to the defendants in 2022 who have a shop in Jaipur with a similar name and have registered the word mark in 2013. In this case, the Plaintiff, who is the proprietor of the mark “Footlockers” since 1988, has not used it for 30 years.

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