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Illinois court finds insurance coverage for alleged trade dress infringement

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15, 2022) The court of appeals reversed summary judgment in favor of an insurer, and ordered partial summary judgment for the insured, on the duty to defend in underlying litigation based on advertising injury coverage for trade dress infringement (depicting allegedly infringing products) in the insured’s advertising.

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Book review and discount code: Commercialising Celebrity Persona

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The book examines how the advertising, merchandising, film and television, and sports video-games industries use persona as a key component of their products. Chapter three identifies and analyses three influences on behaviour, namely; law, desire to collaborate via contract, and social norms.

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Court Denies Class Certification in Click Fraud Case–Singh v. Google

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Since the resolution of that litigation, click fraud issues have largely faded into the background, flaring up only occasionally. ” For standing purposes, it doesn’t matter that he still advertises through AdWords. So it’s a nostalgic kick to blog a pure click fraud ruling in 2022. Commonality. ” Typicality.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

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Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. The flexibility of contracts makes them a prime candidate for restricting uses that copyright law leaves unprohibited. That still leaves a rather broad space for contract law to effectively limit the use of information.

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J&J Subsidiary Wins $18 Million Judgment Against Surgical Tool Counterfeiter

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The laundry list of accusations also included trademark dilution, false advertising, common law unjust enrichment, common law tortious interference with contract, and breach of settlement agreement.

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) Webinar – “Hot Topics in Advertising Law in North America”

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I always enjoy these and recommend the free GALA webinars to those interested in advertising law; I joined in progress due to some technical difficulties on my end. Teami ($15 million settlement, all but $1 million suspended), where there were other bad things like fighting cancer claims and also nondisclosure by influencers like Cardi B.

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A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial! ??–Alper Automotive v. Day to Day Imports

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. To my knowledge, the only litigated case that resulted in a 512(f) win was Online Policy Group v. The 512(f) plaintiff wins after 3 years of litigation and a bench trial. As a result, we’ve seen very, very few successful 512(f) enforcements.