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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.

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Hollywood Wins Injunction To Shut Down Pirate IPTV Operations, Disable Domain Names

TorrentFreak

Last year his Area 51 service was shut down following a cease-and-desist issued by the Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment (ACE). A pending settlement agreement included a clause that Tusa couldn’t launch or be involved with any similar services. It later disappeared. Tusa was personally served with the Motion.

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Trademark Infringement 101: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Brand 

Corsearch

Imagine you’ve conjured up the hottest brand on the market – “Crispy Crunch Delights” , complete with a jazzy logo. Even with innocent intentions, these trademark violations can attract legal eagles faster than you can say, “cease and desist.” We explore in this article. What is trademark infringement?

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Copyrighting The Uncopyrightable – The NSE Saga

SpicyIP

In the last week of October, NSE proceeded to issue cease and desist notices to stock gaming apps to prevent them from using its data in their gaming apps that mirror the real-time trading of shares. To build the forthcoming argument, an analogy is to be drawn between the NSE data and the copy-edited judgments in question in DB Modak.

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The five steps to help you protect and enforce your trademarks in Portugal

Garrigues Blog

Successful products and services are likely to have their trademarks copied. Registrations will not prevent others per se from trying to enter the market with similar signs covering similar goods and services: you need to be vigilant and take into account the following ground rules. We will explain how to go about it.

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Preventing Trademark Infringement or Stifling Healthy Competition? A Look at 1-800 Contacts and its Keyword Advertising Battle

LexBlog IP

Starting in 2004 , the Company began issuing cease-and-desist letters to competitors, demanding that they prevent their search ads from appearing in response to the keyword “1-800 Contacts.” However, in the fall of 2019 , Warby Parker became a direct competitor of 1-800 Contacts by entering the contact lens market.

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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. This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. Signal 23 Television v.