43(B)log

APRIL 29, 2022

Eventually, instead of monthly compensation, Von Berg offered Hawrych a 10% ownership interest in Nutra-Luxe, which worked for 16 years. Thus, the false advertising claim would be dismissed. False advertising law has a much more structured way of accounting for implications than trademark law does.

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False Advertising Advertising Advertising Registering Trademarks 59

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Anyway, the trademark infringement claim wasn’t plausibly pleaded, because Jones didn’t have statutory standing (an argument the court raised on its own motion, which I’m not sure is right for non-Article III standing but ok). Even without standing, Jones failed to state a claim for false association or false advertising.

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False Advertising Trademark Registration Advertising 87

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

IP 124

IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 124

43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

For about a decade, courts had realized that IIC had gone way too far, and had expanded liability in ways that didn’t protect consumers and facilitated anticompetitive claims about false advertising.

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IP Trademark Advertising Advertising 94