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Press release touting preliminary injunction can found false advertising counterclaims

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10, 2023) Zest sued defendants for trademark/trade dress infringement, alleging that defendants’ DESSLoc suite of denture attachment products infringed the trademarks and trade dress of their Locator product suite. Geryon Ventures, LLC, 2023 WL 2903668, No. 22-CV-230 TWR (NLS) (S.D.

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Top Trademark Trends of 2022

Erik K Pelton

The year saw many trademark stories in the news as backlogs continued at the USPTO even while application filing numbers dropped from their all time highs during the two previous years. Here are the biggest trademark stories of 2022 that we have been following at EMP&A. Celebrity trademark messes. Queen of Christmas.

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counting chickens: should disgorgement be harder for false advertising than for TM?

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2021 WL 4460806, No. 29, 2021) The Clorox defendants sell dietary supplements using the raw materials provided by Certified’s competitor, Avicenna. 18-cv-0744 W (KSC) (S.D. As a reminder, §1117(a) specifically also says “a violation under section 1125(a)” immediately after the quoted words. Is this still true after TransUnion ?]

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TM complainant fails to sink its teeth into unrelated false advertising claims

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CV 20-9482-DMG (ASx), 2021 WL 4134841 (C.D. 6, 2021) VFB sued MPL for Lanham Act, UCL, and FAL violations based on MPL’s “vampiro” cocktail. Unsurprisingly, the trademark claims survive a motion to dismiss, but associated false advertising claims don’t. MPL Brands, Inc.,

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TM claimant may add false advertising claims as direct competitor

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Roach, 2021 WL 4134836, No. 1, 2021) Entrepreneur, a frequent trademark claimant, sought to amend its complaint and add new parties to the TM claims here. Entrepreneur has 15 federal registrations that include the word “entrepreneur.” So the motion to add a false advertising claim was denied without prejudice.

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TM infringement and false advertising claims related to putative open source software "fork" succeed

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PureThink, LLC, 2021 WL 2483778, No. May 18, 2021) Neo4j specializes in graph database management systems. It has trademark registrations for the word mark “NEO4J.” Neo4j, Inc. 5:18-cv-07182-EJD (N.D. I still don’t know what that means, but ok.]

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Good Meat is descriptive for sustainable meat-related services, plausibly deceptive for lab-grown meat

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GMP owns two federally registered trademarks: the “GOOD MEAT” standard character mark and the “GOOD MEAT BREAKDOWN” design mark. The court denies a preliminary injunction on the trademark claims based on lack of likely success on the merits, but declines to dismiss either infringement or false advertising claims.