Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

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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Blogging Contracts Cease and Desist Social Media 95

TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2017 and 2018, its lawyers wrote to them several times, demanding that they cease and desist. For example, it’s believed that Google-owned YouTube holds information on the operators of several channels that are used for marketing and advertising EngineOwning products.

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Cease and Desist Social Media Reporting Copyright Infringement 134

TorrentFreak

MARCH 10, 2022

As our regular reports here on TF illustrate, no one can deny that the team is achieving those goals. The exact impact is hard to evaluate since ACE/MPA do not always publicly report all of their successes. Indeed, we report way more than they do but according to van Voorn, the North American market is being hit hard.

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Cease and Desist Reporting Advertising Advertising 94

The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

COPYRIGHT Giovanni Maria Riccio and Fabiola Iraci Gambazza (E-Lex law firm) reported on the recent publication of the European Audiovisual Observatory entitled " Mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sports content ", commissioned by the European Commission. Several cases were concluded without judgment.

Blogging 126

Blogging IP Non-Fungible Tokens Cease and Desist 126

The IPKat

AUGUST 8, 2021

The General Court then went on to consider that the use of an earlier right by a third party on the internal market, at the time of application for registration of a mark, is not an absolute condition in order to rely on bad faith ( Koton Ma?azacilik azacilik Tekstil Sanayi ve Ticaret v EUIPO (C?

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Cease and Desist Registration Business Marketing 128

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Judging from the Rusty Krab’s marketing efforts and social media promotion as detailed in Viacom’s complaint, the pop-up was far more focused on providing the backdrop for Instagram-worthy selfies than it was on producing edible food. The court begins with findings of fact, lavishing attention on the show’s plot and popularity.

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Blogging Social Media Television Fair Use 91

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In making this finding I draw an adverse inference from Defendant’s failure to initiate litigation against Plaintiff…by November 19, 2018, Defendant was using the DMCA Takedown Notices to suppress a market competitor rather than to enforce a legitimate good faith claim of copyright infringement. MGA Entertainment.

Registration 111

Registration Fair Use Copyright Designs 111

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. Delhi High Court directs Registry to advertise KFC’s ‘Chicken Zinger’ trademark. The application was rejected by the Respondent for being descriptive under Section 9(1)(b).

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Designs Design Trademark Cease and Desist 52

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. The judgment is available in almost every EU language bar English, so I report from a machine translation of the French version.

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Registration Cease and Desist Branding Brands 96

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.

Contracts 98

Contracts Copyright Law Cease and Desist 98

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The Plaintiff issued a cease and desist letter against the use of such marks and the Defendant agreed to settle the claim, but not to discontinue use of its erstwhile company name. The court held that puffery in advertisements is allowed as long as the assertions made are reasonable. DRS Logistics (P.) and Ors. ,

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Registration Trademark Copyright Registering Trademarks 52

LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

As previously reported on this blog , non-fungible tokens (or “NFTs”) recently emerged as one of the hottest new items on the art market—artists, auction houses, museums, sports organizations and others have jumped at the chance to create and sell their own versions of these unique tokens. Miramax LLC v.

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Non-Fungible Tokens Social Media Contracts Branding 52

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ruchi Sharma highlights a few findings of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister’s report “Why India Needs To Urgently Invest In Its Patent Ecosystem?” and emphasizes on the need to facilitate data access by IPO for the betterment of the national innovation system, something which the above report is silent on.

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