Copying False Advertising Marketing Trademark Law 
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Troia wasn’t offering any services at all, but also, note the ad copy–the headline says “horror story” and the text says “They abruptly fired me,” which were pretty good tipoffs to consumers of what they should expect at the link. To marketplace alternatives that they independently discover and vet?
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
AUGUST 30, 2023
Nursing CE Central” is a descriptive mark with “a weak secondary meaning… the plaintiff makes no meaningful showing that the public, or even those in the market in which it competes, readily recognizes its name.” ” Marketing channel. Brown Engstrand * More on Law Firms and Competitive Keyword Ads–Nicolet Law v.
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Technology & Marketing Law Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
To many trademark owners, it’s a simple decision to sue when the advertiser includes the trademark in the ad copy. This is a bad ad buy by Allied, AND it’s a bad trademark enforcement decision by Porta-Fab. More Posts About Keyword Advertising. So why did I say the case was stupid? LoanStreet v.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JANUARY 8, 2024
That’s certainly true for high-profile and well-advertised consumer items like fast food chains, mass-market phones, and major car labels, but is it true in this particular niche? the rival included ad copy telling consumers they were buying the trademark owner’s items when they weren’t. LoanStreet v.
43(B)log
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Viacom also engaged a market research company to learn more about “southern beach culture,” which suggested that the term Flora-bama was “either unknown or though [sic] to refer strictly to the bar.” Deliberate copying was irrelevant. New Life Art, Inc., 3d 1266 (11th Cir. Nor was the use explicitly misleading. Yet both artists won.”
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
The manufacturer can sue the seller for copying its shots; the manufacturer can sue for false advertising if non-official shots aren’t “accurate,” and freelancers love to sue over product shots they took and ones they think are too similar to the ones they took.]. Trademark owners will weaponize that ambiguity.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Defendant has also used Plaintiffs’ trademarks “Seeking Millionaire,” “Seeking Arrangement,” “Whats Your Price,” “Carrot Dating,” and “Seeking” as search terms in the Apple Appstore and Google Play Store to yield LuxyApp as a search result. There’s also a copyright claim for Luxy copying the plaintiff’s TOS/privacy policy.
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