Remove False Advertising Remove Licensing Remove Service Mark Remove Trademark
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copying competitor's website & reviews creates (c), TM, false advertising problems

43(B)log

Boston Suburban allegedly continued to use the “Logan Car Servicemark in online keyword advertising and in metatags, and continued to copy customer reviews from Boston Carriage’s website and publish them on online review platforms. And RICO claims failed because they were RICO claims.

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TM infringement and false advertising claims related to putative open source software "fork" succeed

43(B)log

It has trademark registrations for the word mark “NEO4J.” under a commercial license only. By default, all Government Packages for Neo4j now comes with Neo4j Enterprise included under its open source license! as a base, but replaced the Neo4j Sweden Software License with the AGPL. This used Neo4j EE version 3.4

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Trade Dress Protection: Laws and Its Relevance

IP and Legal Filings

Additionally, a brand can also license a trade dress in order to obtain monetary advantages. However, trade dresses and their protection may fall under the ambit of the Trade Marks Act, 1999. Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act specifically deals with the statutory remedies that are available for false advertising.

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