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Advertisers Freedom To Make Ads

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction The promotion of products through defamatory or misleading remarks about the competitor’s product, known as “product disparagement,” can lead to legal disputes, blurring the line between this and comparative advertising. To prevent legal disputes, caution must be exercised to differentiate between the two.

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Harpic v. Domex Advertisement: Product Disparagement or Nominative Fair Use?

SpicyIP

Domex Advertisement: Product Disparagement or Nominative Fair Use? An image of the comparative advertisement launched by Domex, wherein Domex explicitly asks which toilet cleaner fights bad smell for longer and makes a tick mark against Domex, with Harpic as another option next to it. Legal Position on Comparative Advertisement.

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Statutory Licensing in India in the Age of Online Music Streaming: A Comment on Tips vs. Wynk

Kashishipr

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year.

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Cut! There’s a trademark there

Garrigues Blog

It is common practice in the audiovisual world to be particularly careful with any trademarks displayed on screen. In fact, one of the first things that film television or audiovisual communications students are taught is not to show any trademarks in their short films or other visual projects that they are filming.

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A&E's (c) and TM claims survive against former producer's new version of cop show

43(B)log

A&E Television Networks, LLC v. 16, 2023) The court refused to dismiss copyright and trademark claims based on copying of a TV show format, including the hosts. Although the court is quite careful, this does seem to be TM/market analysis creeping into copyright.] Big Fish Entertainment, LLC, 2023 WL 4053871, No.

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Small business trademark protections are more critical than ever

Erik K Pelton

a great trademark: Marketing department. Television advertising. There are decisions about expenses that tug at small business owners every single day—rent, new equipment, software programs, advertising budgets, personnel, and many more. Here are some of many things a business does not need in order to have.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 18- December 24)

SpicyIP

The Court restrained the Defendants from manufacturing and marketing the drug, but given the importance of the drug in treating diseases such as cancer, allowed the Defendants to exhaust the stock available with them. The court held that puffery in advertisements is allowed as long as the assertions made are reasonable. and Ors. ,