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Trade mark infringement and dynamic advertising

The IPKat

Google offers an advertising service called Dynamic Search Ads. However, instead of using a text from the advertiser, Google’s proprietary algorithm automatically generates the text, including the headline and landing page, from the advertiser’s website content. The Court applied by analogy the case law on keyword advertising.

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Lower Price Alternative? Comparative Advertising and Trademark Infringement

IPilogue

Comparative advertising is an effective marketing technique, in which a company’s product or service is compared to its competitor’s. This provides consumers with more information and allows small businesses to compete with mega corporations. Tianchu Gao is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. .

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Retailer has standing to assert Lanham Act false advertising claims against its own supplier

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Lynd advertised the Product as effective against the coronavirus. Ultimately, AHBP took an exclusive license to sell the product in Argentina, with purchasing and advertising/marketing spend minimums. the Lanham Act false advertising claim survived.

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Facebook Held Liable For Using Personal Information Without Consent

IPilogue

Through Sponsored Stories, advertisers pay Facebook to associate their mark on Facebook’s social media website with users that performed certain social actions in connection with the advertiser (e.g. users who click the “like” button on the advertiser’s Facebook Page).

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video on company's YouTube channel was informational, not commercial speech

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15, 2023) When is informational material related to a for-profit company’s business commercial speech? Crawlspace Ninja “sells and distributes a variety of products designed to waterproof crawl spaces and remediate mold,” including Anabec x70, “a moisture barrier product designed for application to unfinished building surfaces.”

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The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act Enjoined

IP Tech Blog

On September 18, 2023, NetChoice, LLC — a national trade association with members from the tech and social media industry — obtained a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Northern District of California preventing the State of California from enforcing the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“AADC” or the “Act”).

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Earnings calls, recall notices not "commercial advertising or promotion," but could be "of and concerning" largest market player

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It alleged that the Philips defendants, who make such devices, engaged in false advertising about one of SoClean’s devices in order to deflect blame for the Philips devices’ design defects. Commercial advertising or promotion: A separate problem. Recall notice: Eli Lilly & Co. Roussel Corp., 2d 460 (D.N.J.