43(B)log

MAY 16, 2022

Doe, 2022 WL 1514649, No. May 13, 2022) I wrote an amicus brief in this case. To the extent [the Board’s] appeal attempts to improperly use trademark laws to block the expression of negative views about the university and its administration, such efforts fail.” Arizona Bd. of Regents v. 21-16525 (9th Cir.

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False Advertising Advertising Advertising Trademark Law 72

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

2:21-cv-07929-MEMF(PVCx), 2022 WL 18674459 (C.D. 22, 2022) This is a super messy case with a lot going on; I’m going to blog about it mainly to highlight a new thing you can apparently do with a trademark application , which is use it on non-Amazon platforms to gain advantages. Hollywood Unlocked, Inc.,

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False Advertising Trademark Registration Advertising 87

43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2023

“While Plaintiffs seek prospective relief, they have provided the Court with no basis from which it can infer any possibility of an ongoing violation of federal law.” For trademark, any request was moot since the law requiring the sale of license plates and license labels expired by its own terms on December 31, 2022.

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Licensing False Advertising Advertising Advertising 49

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 26, 2022

I’ve often wondered about the conversations that take place between trademark owner and counsel before filing a keyword advertising lawsuit. You can have a court declare your trademarks weak or invalid so they are less valuable than when you started. 2022 WL 2664124 (D. July 11, 2022). Should we say ?

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Trademark Advertising Advertising Litigation 99

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2022

2022 WL 594833 (D. 2022 WL 670919 (W.D. March 7, 2022). ” The false designation of origin claim is similarly governed by the Ninth Circuit’s Lasoff v. More Posts About Keyword Advertising. Google. * Competitive Keyword Advertising Claim Fails–Reflex Media v. Groupon, Inc. BONUS: Melwani v.

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Trademark Advertising Advertising Settlement 80

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

This week, another court added to 1-800 Contacts’ smouldering pile of trademark jurisprudence and granted a judgment on the pleadings (Rule 12(c)) dismissing 1-800 Contacts’ competitive keyword advertising lawsuit against its rival Warby Parker. ” (I think this conclusion was true many years before 2022).

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

22-148 , both before and after the petition for certiorari was granted on November 21, 2022. at 997-98, Rogers limited the application of the Lanham Act’s prohibition on false advertising “to apply to artistic works only where the public interest in avoiding consumer confusion outweighs the public interest in free expression.

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Trademark Intellectual Property Branding Brands 52

43(B)log

DECEMBER 1, 2022

29, 2022) MGFB runs the Flora-Bama Lounge, Package and Oyster Bar on the Florida-Alabama border. Although “third parties have used Flora-Bama in the titles of third parties’ artistic works with Plaintiffs’ oral or written permission,” that doesn’t make this a title-v-title case: Basic trademark law demonstrates why.

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Artistic Work Television Trademark Trademark Law 64

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The judgement was passed in October 2022, but was uploaded in September 2023 on the High Court’s website. Further, the judgement also sets aside the 4 factor test in the 2022 Nokia v. Bolt Technology v. First, in Toyota v. The above understanding was relied upon by another Division Bench in Google LLC v. Makemytrip (India) Pvt.

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IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 124