article thumbnail

Dastar doesn't bar allegedly false advertising about source of planned development services

43(B)log

Defendants' letter allegedly copied text from LStar Trademark infringement: LStar never specified what its trademarks or service marks were. It argued that defendants copied, but didn’t identify a particular word, name, or symbol, or combination thereof, within the highlighted paragraphs, as the alleged trademark(s).

article thumbnail

IPSC Opening Plenary Session

43(B)log

Non expressive uses: reverse engineering, anti-plagiarism, search plus text data mining, snippets. Sonia Katyal, A Trademark Theory of Rebranding Lots of rebranding out there. 3) reasonable measures to safeguard privacy interests. (4) 4) detailed records of works used and their provenance.