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How to Get Sued for Sending a Cease-and-Desist Letter: Declaratory Judgment

Patent Trademark Blog

Can you get sued for sending a cease-and-desist letter? Before you send that cease-and-desist letter, understand this risk and gauge the probability of the other side escalating the fight. A cease-and-desist letter is sent to an accused infringer based in Illinois.

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Tacos with a Side of Cease and Desist

IPilogue

Controversy ensued when a Mexican food restaurant in the UK, Taquería, issued a cease and desist letter to a similar restaurant, Sonora Taquería, for infringement of their registered mark “Taqueria.” This article was written as a requirement for Prof. Pina D’Agostino’s IP Intensive Program.

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Cease-and-Desist Letter: How to Use It Effectively or Reply

Patent Trademark Blog

Why send a cease-and-desist letter? On its surface, a cease-and-desist letter seems like a less expensive way to enforce intellectual property rights. Need to enforce your patent and trademark rights, or reply to a cease-and-desist letter? Are competitors copying your products?

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“Go Ahead, Sue Us”: Sony sends Cease-and-Desist after Taunts

IPilogue

Unsurprisingly, Sony sent DBrand a cease-and-desist letter , which the Canadian company published online and used to generate marketing for a newer, allegedly “not illegal,” albeit similar, product. The cease-and-desist letter can be found here. Photo by DBrand.

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Chegg Is Likely to Prevail on Its Anti-Scraping CFAA Claim…But Doesn’t Get an Injunction–Chegg v. Doe (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Chegg sent a cease-and-desist letter to Homeworkify’s domain registrar, Namecheap, its proxy server, Cloudflare, and the email address associated with domain registration, but they have found nothing. (for Doe (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The horror! Also, this is dicta.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Facebook objected and sent a cease-and-desist letter. The post Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The service that Power Ventures sold was a platform to manage multiple social media platforms together.

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Airline Sues to Stop Popular Web-Scraping Service–American Airlines v. The Points Guy (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

On January 9th, American Airlines sent TPG a cease-and-desist letter. Of course, Facebook objected and sent a cease-and-desist letter. That language implied that revocation-by-cease-and-desist letter was no longer sufficient to trigger CFAA liability.