article thumbnail

Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? Some Perspectives

SpicyIP

We are pleased to bring to you a guest post by Roshan Santhalia ruminating on the question of whether a cease-and-desist notice before instituting a trademark or copyright infringement suit should be issued or not. Cease and desist by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 He completed his B.A.

article thumbnail

YouTube Ripper Sends Cease and Desist to Google, Hoping to Stop DMCA Abuse

TorrentFreak

Cease and Desist This activity has been a growing source of frustration for YTMP3.nu’s To put an end to the abuse, the YouTube ripper asked its lawyer to send a cease and desist and preservation demand to Google. According to YTMP3.nu, nu’s operator. According to the letter, YTMP3.nu

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. Are competitors copying your products? Need to enforce your patent and trademark rights, or reply to a cease-and-desist letter?

article thumbnail

Record Labels: ‘Hisses & Crackles’ Are No License to Copy & Digitize Old Records

TorrentFreak

The Internet Archive is widely known for its Wayback Machine, which preserves copies of the web for future generations. The record labels were aware of this, they allege, as the RIAA sent a cease and desist letter on their behalf but took no further action at the time. The Great 78 Project is illegal,” they state.

Copying 105
article thumbnail

[Guest Post] The wisdom of Dune and copyright litigation

The IPKat

The author argues that copyright holders would do well to heed this wisdom before entering into litigation, as exemplified by a recent decision from the Swedish Patent and Market Court in case PMT 2401-21. This Dune tells us, every member of the secretive Bene Gesserit sisterhood knows.

article thumbnail

Practice Tips for Combating Counterfeiters: An Action Plan for Brands, Manufacturers and Retailers

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The Lanham Act defines ‘trademark counterfeiting’ as producing or selling a product bearing a false trademark that is an intentional copy of a genuine trademark (15 USC §1127). In addition, they may be liable for defective counterfeit products even if they did not manufacture them.

Branding 147
article thumbnail

YTMP3 Wants Google to Identify Alleged DMCA Fraudsters

TorrentFreak

In an attempt to curtail the abuse, the site sent a cease and desist letter to Google in April, asking the search engine to begin verifying senders of DMCA notices. nu also asked for a litigation hold in anticipation of future legal action. — A copy of the CreativeCode’s request, filed at the U.S.