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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 Views expressed are those of the author’s alone.

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

TorrentFreak

The DMCA takedown process allows copyright holders to report infringing content and have it removed or taken down. Cease and Desist This activity has been a growing source of frustration for YTMP3.nu’s In addition, YTMP3 points out that the reported links don’t identify a specific copyrighted work on the site.

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RipRequests Dead After RIAA ‘Hand Delivers’ Piracy Cease-and-Desist

TorrentFreak

What followed was a cease-and-desist from the RIAA which advised that “Such activity is illegal, and these actions must stop at once.” According to him, the RIAA “somehow” found out where he lives and took the opportunity to hand-deliver a cease-and-desist notice. RipRequests Will Not Return.

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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? Does the letter mention a copyright, trademark or patent?

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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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Police Visit Pirate IPTV Suppliers’ Homes to Serve Cease-and-Desist Notices

TorrentFreak

According to an announcement from anti-piracy company the Federation Against Copyright Theft, during the past week police units targeted several suspected suppliers of pirate IPTV services around the UK. All of the individuals served with a cease-and-desist notice over the past week are reportedly lower-level players in the pirate IPTV world.

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Other Barks & Bites for Friday, January, 13: Marjorie Taylor Greene Removes Video after Cease-and-Desist Letter from Dr. Dre; Computer Scientist Asks Courts for Copyright on AI-Generated Art; and Adidas Loses Case Over Three-Stripe Trademark

IP Watchdog

This week in Other Barks & Bites: Dr. Dre issues a cease-and-desist letter to Marjorie Taylor Greene alleging copyright infringement; Apple loses a patent case that threatens the import of certain Apple Watches; a jury rules in favor of fashion designer Thom Browne over Adidas in a trademark case; and the USPTO extends the deadline to submit comments (..)