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Biggest Colorado Decisions Of 2023

IP Law 360

Supreme Court loomed large in Colorado this year, with the state suffering two major defeats, including its prominent anti-discrimination loss involving an anti-gay web designer. Here, Law360 looks at some of the biggest decisions affecting Colorado in 2023.

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‘Fear of God’ and their Fear of Counterfeit: Taking Legal Action Against Fake E-commerce Sites

IPilogue

Meena Alnajar is an IPilogue Writer, IP Innovation Clinic Fellow, and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Web designers can effectively imitate popular online retailers or claim to be resale sites authorized to sell the trademarked items, promoting uncertainty as to which sites are counterfeiters.

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DMCA Scammers Exploit Sites Linked to Mental Health Issues to Boost SEO

TorrentFreak

As the archive copy of the Beyond Boundaries website on the Wayback Machine clearly shows in the footer, the site was created by web design/SEO company i New Media. Given that the scammy hypnotherapist website was copied from a website that I-New Media originally designed, we wanted to clarify the facts with the company.

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Now Is Really the Time to Pay Attention to Dark Patterns – Seriously

LexBlog IP

Similarly, are call-to-action buttons or other aspects of web design being chosen based on consumer research that indicates which of multiple “clear” yet different designs is more likely to get the desired outcome? If so, it may be time to at least flag that as a point of discussion.

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What is the “Supplemental Trademark Register”?

LexBlog IP

See In Re Nett Designs, Inc , 236 F.3d Finally, let’s assume there is a mark called “SMITH GRAPHIX COMPANY” for graphic design services. Second, the term “GRAPHIX,” while a misspelling, describes the services, namely, graphic design. completely unrelated to web design), and would likely register.