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copying/explicit references let Roblox proceed with dubious (c) claim; Lego should be watching

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WowWee’s Vice President of Brand Development & Creative Strategy, Sydney Wiseman, used her WowWee email address to create a Roblox user account and used her Roblox account to promote My Avastars dolls on social media, including videos on her TikTok account. This was enough survive the motion to dismiss.

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adult venue's insurer did not successfully exclude ads from ad injury coverage

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Princeton insured Wonderland from 2016-2018 (with a broad exclusion for defamation, invasion of privacy, and various forms of advertising injury in the second year called the Exhibitions and Related Marketing Exclusion), and agreed to defend the club but reserved the right to deny insurance coverage.

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dueling SJ motions lose in energy drink case; jury will decide whether "Super Creatine" is "creatine"

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19, 2022) The parties compete in the market for energy drinks. VPX (Vital) makes BANG, which now contains creatyl-l-leucine (CLL), “a novel ingredient marketed under the trademark ‘Super Creatine.’ … Defendants claim that CLL is more stable and more bioavailable than other forms of creatine.”

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it is unfair to fail to disclose paid promotion/for influencers not to do due diligence on what they promote

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I’ll focus, as usual, on the false advertising bits and ignore the securities law parts. Another theory of harm came from allegations that the executive defendants and some of the promoter/influencer defendants were selling off their tokens as they promoted them, engaging in market manipulation.

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Rogers v Grimaldi doesn't apply to alcohol, but Peaky Blinders still can't get injunction

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The dictionary definitions of the words “Peaky” and “Blinders” were not dispositive. It submitted 14 social media posts “which it contends shows consumers and retailers attributed a particular source to Defendants’ liquor and Plaintiff’s television show.” False advertising/passing off: Same basic problems.

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Green Washing Vis-A-Vis Green Trade Marks

IP and Legal Filings

For example, social media has been widely discussing the impact of micro-plastics on the environment and contemplating methods to reduce its release. The objective is to mislead the consumers knowing well the marketability of this concept. Another pertinent aspect is the effect of its disposal to the environment.

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Artistic Expression or Crass Commercialism? Drawing the lines in Right of Publicity, Lanham Act, and Commercial Speech Cases

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Malwarebytes, which allowed a false advertising claim to proceed based on one software provider’s use of the terms “malicious” and “threat” to describe its alleged competitor’s software, despite a dissent raising free speech arguments. Then I’ll talk about the 9 th Circuit case Enigma Software v.