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Concept Of Trademark Bullying: Forceful Enforcement Of Trademark Rights In The Name Of Protection

IP and Legal Filings

This is generally done by giant corporations and brand names to survive the competition and swallow the small businesses for gains. The modus operandi of bullying and legal threats which are baseless by large entities gets initiated by serving a cease and desist notice which contains threats of instituting a trademark infringement suit.

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DISH Sued Two IPTV Resellers: First Case Dismissed, Second Owes $30m

TorrentFreak

The decision to sell packages branded as Beast TV, a service that was taken down three years earlier by several Hollywood studios, Netflix, and Canada’s Bell Media, may have been a ploy to exploit existing brand awareness among pirates. The obvious downside was awareness among rightsholders. 1201(a)(2) and 17 U.S.C.

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Preventing Trademark Infringement or Stifling Healthy Competition? A Look at 1-800 Contacts and its Keyword Advertising Battle

LexBlog IP

It is difficult to remember a time when keyword advertising did not dominate the internet. Most search engines, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, maintain keyword advertising programs which allow advertisers to bid on search terms and keywords that drive customers searching for a particular product or service to their website.

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ACE Expands to Become a Lean and Mean Anti-Piracy Machine

TorrentFreak

Five years ago , several of the world’s largest entertainment industry companies teamed up to create a brand new anti-piracy coalition. In addition, advertising companies and payment processors help to cut off revenue to pirate sites and services, when appropriate. Collaborating with Governments and Law Enforcement. all over the globe.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 6- February 12)

SpicyIP

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. Delhi High Court directs Registry to advertise KFC’s ‘Chicken Zinger’ trademark. Ltd for disobeying the Palbociclib interim injunction. Check out the post for more details.

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