Last month, Vital Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Vital”), the manufacturer of the Bang energy drink, fell short in its post-trial challenge to a “monster” jury award in favor of Monster Energy Company (“Monster”). After nearly five years of litigation in the Central District of California, Monster’s Lanham continue reading...
A lot has happened since we last checked in on the Corn Syrup battle between the parent companies of Bud Light, Miller Lite, and Coors Light. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a split opinion, issued an intervening order on October 18, 2019, finding continue reading...
Anyone who saw the Special Delivery commercial during the Super Bowl is familiar with Bud Light’s “No Corn Syrup” campaign. The Special Delivery commercial made it pretty clear that Miller Light and Coors Light are brewed with corn syrup whereas Bud Light is brewed with continue reading...
We are back from the 2018 National Advertising Division Annual Conference: The Truth About Advertising Law – Recent Developments and Best Practices that took place over two days in downtown New York. We heard from the NAD Director, NAD staff attorneys as well as staff continue reading...
Hello loyal TMCA readers – This is the first installment of what we hope to be an informative series of posts called Quirky Questions: TMCA Edition. Our labor and employment colleagues have a great blog, Quirky Questions, where they answer unanticipated questions regarding workforce issues. continue reading...
Yes, you read the title of this post correctly – Judge Rogers of the Northern District of California granted summary judgement in favor of Starbucks in a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the coffee company deceived consumers by underfilling lattes and mochas. The plaintiffs’ continue reading...
In Board-Tech Elec. Co. v. Eaton Electric Holdings LLC, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently dismissed a novel claim that a competitor’s authorized use of a third party’s certification mark in connection with products that allegedly did not comply continue reading...
In recent years, a boomlet of litigation – primarily in California – has arisen regarding the product known as “evaporated cane juice” or “ECJ.” The product – made by extracting fluid from crushed sugar cane, clarifying the fluid, evaporating the fluid to create a concentrate, continue reading...
Medical endorsements can be powerful selling tools for health care products. But if a medical professional has a connection to the company marketing the products that would be material to consumers in evaluating the credibility of the endorsement, the connection must be disclosed in advertising continue reading...
Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act is generally considered a broad-based vehicle for asserting false advertising claims. For the owner and operator of the Trump Hotel Las Vegas, however, the statutory section was not broad enough to encompass alleged falsehoods in a flyer circulated by continue reading...
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