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Africa IP highlights 2023: Trade marks

The IPKat

Yesterday, it was all about key developments in the copyright field in the Africa IP Highlights 2023 – the result of collaboration between myself and several IP practitioners and researchers across Africa: Clarisse Mideva ; Rita Chindah ; and Jessie Mgonga. Today, it’s about the trade marks. Tinderet is an area in Kenya.

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Chegg Is Likely to Prevail on Its Anti-Scraping CFAA Claim…But Doesn’t Get an Injunction–Chegg v. Doe (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In addition to providing Chegg’s for-pay services online for free, Homeworkify has used and continues to use Chegg’s name in Google Advertising. But if defendant scraped all the data before getting a cease-and-desist letter and while it still had valid access, no degree of subsequent misuse creates a CFAA claim. The horror!

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sending emails under former employees' names may be reverse passing off

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CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC, 2023 WL 9022893, No. 29, 2023) loanDepot alleged that CCM, its chief competitor, “improperly poached” 32 employees, and CCM and various former employees. LoanDepot.com, LLC v. 22-cv-5971 (AS) (S.D.N.Y. The false association/coordinate state law claims survived. Ankura Consulting Grp.,

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Lawsuit Targets Genshin Impact Hackers ‘Akebi Group’ & ‘Crepe Team’

TorrentFreak

A named defendant and others yet to be fully identified now face a full-blown lawsuit after allegedly failing to comply with the terms of a cease-and-desist notice. These matters in the U.S. sit in stark contrast to events currently unfolding in Canada’s Federal Court. and 30 days for $19.99.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In November 2023, X corp. seeks only damages based on the reactions of advertisers (third parties) to CCDH’s speech in the Toxic Twitter report, which CCDH created after the scraping. The alleged “harm” here was a report that painted Twitter in an unflattering light and caused Twitter to purportedly lose advertising revenue.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In return for users agreeing to the TOU, Craigslist provides services to its users “including but not limited to classified advertising, forums, and email forwarding.” 2023 WL 6210901. Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. TOU at 6-7. ” TOU at 1. at 976-977.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 6- February 12)

SpicyIP

Geeta Kewalani on 2 February, 2023 (Delhi High Court) Delhi High Court relying on ‘Laxmikant V Patel v Chetanbhai Shah’ passed an interim injunction restraining the Defendant from using the mark “Foot Locker”. After the Supreme Court ruling in Toyota v. Case: Louis Vuitton Malletier vs Capital General Store & Ors.

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