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The SAD Scheme as an Institutional Failure

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The TRO acts like a supernotice compared to the traditional takedown notice: it targets sellers, not individual items; and it implicates their cash from all of their sales, not just the allegedly infringing listings. Second, the SAD Scheme is swallowing up the rest of trademark law.

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NAD Whitening Strips Case Illuminates How NAD May Incorporate New FTC Health Claims Guidance

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This was quietly heralded as an update to the 1998 Dietary Supplement Advertising Guides, but oh dear readers, it is so much more. We also have an upcoming webinar covering the topic in March – details here.) They stained the samples and then applied Lumineux strips and Crest Whitestrips for an hour and compared the results. (In

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Book Review and Reader Discount: Copyright and Cartography

The IPKat

The book is advertised as being of interest to historians, historians of the map and print culture, as well as those interested in the history of knowledge and how legal control over data has been exerted overtime and intellectual property scholars.

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Retromark: the conference is back on 24 May – sign up now!

The IPKat

RetroKat After two sell-out years and two pandemic years, Retromark: the conference is back in the form of an afternoon of in-person trade mark law and practice hosted by Darren Meale of Simmons & Simmons and the IPKat on Tuesday 24 May (an earlier date was previously advertising, but we’ve pushed back owing to pandemic concerns).

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Trademark Disparagement, Free Speech and Bullying: The Case of Dabur v. Dhruv Rathee

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Background Dabur alleged that by comparing carbonated drinks with “ready to serve” (RTS) fruit beverages, Rathee has made unfair comparisons between the two products and has thus caused a generic disparagement of all packaged drinking fruit juices. In the case of Hindustan Unilever Limited v. Dabur India Ltd. Legal Strategy?

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Section 230 Protects Services That Permit Anonymous Third-Party Posts–Bride v. Snap

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

“Plaintiffs allege they received harassing messages in response to their benign posts on Defendants’ applications and did not receive comparable messages on other platforms in which user identities were revealed.” Both allegedly target teens audiences. ” The defendants successfully defend on Section 230 grounds.

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Piracy Advertising Researchers Fall Victim to Ransomware Attacks

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The Digital Citizens Alliance ( DCA ) shared some new research that it carried out in partnership with piracy advertising expert White Bullet and cybersecurity outfit Unit 221B. Also, it’s worth noting that there is research on the topic that shows quite a different picture. New Pirate Site Malware Research.