IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

A Social Media Influencer is someone who creates unique material that keeps people interested on multiple social media platforms, causing them to return for more high-quality information. One of the most significant methods to safeguard material on social media is through copyright. Make intangible assets.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I’m going to talk briefly about last term’s Jack Daniels case—a trademark infringement and dilution case—as well as Elster, argued last week, in which the Justices appeared inclined to reject a First Amendment challenge to the refusal to register the claimed mark “TRUMP TOO SMALL” for t-shirts.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Kaira also established trademark infringement. Registration of the AMUL trademarks gave Kaira the exclusive right to use the trademark in Canada. Included within Kaira’s request for relief was an order transferring ownership and all rights in the infringing LinkedIn and social media accounts.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

My former student Grace McLaughlin has written an excellent note about the fact that these putative trademarks don’t serve human trademark functions—it’s very hard to remember them or distinguish one random string from another random string in terms of knowing what you’ve seen before—and has proposed some possible responses from the PTO.

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