Designs False Advertising Trademark Trademark Law 
43(B)log
MARCH 9, 2022
7, 2022) Melwani owns the Royal Silk trademark for “a wide variety of products.” Similar searches were also “frustrating”; Melwani alleged that the search results were “erroneous, scattershot, mingled” as well as “consistently confusing, misleading, false, and deceptive.” False designation of origin/false advertising: Lasoff v.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
” I’ll focus on the false designation of origin claim regarding Troia’s keyword ads. Troia claimed that he did not use the LoanStreet trademark in commerce. Just referencing a trademark on the Internet does not support a trademark claim, full stop. the SMJ case. Case Citation : LoanStreet, Inc.
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43(B)log
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Panel #2, TM, moderated by Vice Dean Felix Wu Jack Daniels says that use as a trademark is special: like copyright’s bête noire, confusion caused by trademark use is the central concern of trademark law. I’ve left out the parts specific to registered trademarks and the reference to treaties. Taco Cabana, from 1992.
43(B)log
JANUARY 27, 2023
Steeplechase has a copyright for the book, “Piano Book for Adult Beginners: Teach Yourself How to Play Famous Piano Songs, Read Music, Theory & Technique” and registered trademark rights in STEEPLECHASE ARTS & PRODUCTIONS for, among other things, music instruction books, including for the Piano Book. Was this literally false?
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MARCH 13, 2022
LVSA sued Groupon for trademark infringement. Melwani sued Amazon for trademark infringement, dilution, and more. With respect to the trademark claim, the court says the Ninth Circuit’s Multi-Time Machine v. Google. * Competitive Keyword Advertising Still Isn’t Trademark Infringement, Unless….
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
It claims to focus on “counterfeits” that could harm consumer “health and safety,” but those are both lies designed to make the bill seem narrower and more balanced than it actually is. Instead of protecting consumers, this bill gives trademark owners absolute control over online marketplaces by overturning Tiffany v.
43(B)log
OCTOBER 7, 2021
“A reasonable consumer would understand that ‘vanilla’ is merely a flavor designator, not an ingredient claim.” Comment: trademark law bounces rather casually between normative and empirical understandings of the reasonable consumer. These cases provide great evidence that false advertising law does so as well.]
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