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A green slogan is not a trademark, says the General Court

The IPKat

The term is a compound word modelled on the verb “whitewash” and can be defined as a market or public relations process by an organisation to give a misleading image of ecological responsibility. This information can be in some cases confusing or misleading. Photo courtesy of Luisa Callini and Minou.

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Recent Summary Judgment Decision in FleetCor Case Spells Trouble for CEOs and Disclaimers

LexBlog IP

It is not every day that the FTC sues the CEO of a publicly traded company, and it is even less often that we see a federal court opinion on the topic, so this decision warrants a deep dive. Background. But before we focus on the decision, we need to get some unusually messy procedural history tied to the AMG decision out of the way.

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IP Scholarship, Citations, and Knowledge Governance: Some Insights from the History of IP Teaching in India

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While there is no empirical or otherwise relevant research that I could find on this topic tracing the history of IP teaching, given the above details, it seems that India (and many countries in Asia and the Pacific countries, as clear from IPMall’s archives) actively started getting into academic discussions about IP only after the 2000s.

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Instead of Shining a Light on Dark Patterns, New FTC Report Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

LexBlog IP

For some time now, dark patterns have been quite the trending topic for both marketers and privacy professionals. And outside this country, the European Data Protection Board issued some interesting guidelines on the topic. A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation called the DETOUR Act that would ban dark patterns.

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Covid-19 Act gives government more options in proceeding against supplement seller

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Certainly, Defendant Nepute made assertions about Vitamin D, zinc, COVID-19, and the vaccines, among other things, in his advertisements, but he often jumped from topic to topic and did not make connections between his statements. Furthermore, some of the representations he made about Vitamin D and zinc were vague or ambiguous.

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ChatGPT and Intellectual Property (IP) related Topics

LexBlog IP

This is why ChatGPT seems so knowledgeable about a vast array of topics and subject areas. maximizing the similarity between outputs and the dataset the models were trained on) and that such outputs may be inaccurate, untruthful, and otherwise misleading at times.” ” OpenAI, ChatGPT General FAQ. Again caveat emptor.

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Barton Beebe’s empirical work on this topic. Two paragraphs later, the majority opinion slips another misleading omission into an otherwise uncontroversial paragraph: Whether a use shares the purpose or character of an original work, or instead has a further purpose or different character, is a matter of degree. of America v.