We previously wrote about a series of trademark lawsuits filed by NBA MVP and now NBA champion Giannis Antetokounmpo over the use of his nickname “Greek Freak”. Those lawsuits all contained similar allegations: that the defendants sold merchandise online bearing Antetokounmpo’s name, nickname and/or likeness, continue reading...
Just in time for the holidays, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky issued a decision steeped in two rich holiday traditions—family lore and alcohol. On December 16, 2021, the court entered a preliminary injunction against Log Still Distilling, LLC in a continue reading...
Image from Mario Breda / Shutterstock.com Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have made another court appearance, with Miramax, LLC filing a complaint in the Central District of California in an attempt to stop Quentin Tarantino from auctioning off seven Pulp Fiction-based NFTs. At the center of the continue reading...
Attention trademark practitioners: the finalized rules implementing the 2020 Trademark Modernization Act (“TMA”) go into effect this weekend, on December 18, 2021. Significantly, this marks the availability of three new mechanisms for eliminating “deadwood” registrations: petitions for reexamination, petitions for expungement, and a new nonuse continue reading...
There are two sure-fire ways to maximize the chances that a consumer survey gets bounced out of federal court: (1) surveying the wrong people; and (2) leading them to a desired “correct” answer. Both of these survey maladies were on display in a dispute pending continue reading...
Get ready, large employers. After years of amendments exempting the personal information of employees and other personnel from the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), covered employers now have a firm deadline by which to comply with the CCPA’s requirements in protecting employee and personnel personal continue reading...
Image from Kraft74 / Shutterstock.com In 1994, Firooz Zahedi was hired by Miramax to photograph the actress Uma Thurman as her character Mia Wallace in the film Pulp Fiction. Miramax paid Zahedi $10,000 for his work, used one of his photographs of Mia Wallace laying continue reading...
Twelve years after the Federal Circuit’s landmark In re Bose decision on fraud, the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) has answered one of the questions not reached by Bose: whether reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of a material statement in a continue reading...
A federal magistrate judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, in a trade secrets dispute involving CBD-based pain cream, recently granted summary judgment in favor of all but one defendant. The Court’s ruling is a useful illustration of why continue reading...
On October 8, 2021, the Personal Data (Privacy) (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 containing initiatives to combat doxxing acts became effective in Hong Kong. The anti-doxxing regime under the Amendment not only defines broad and encompassing offences coupled with hefty penalties but also confers new investigative and continue reading...
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