Posts tagged with "Unfair Competition"

  1. TrademarksUnfair Competition

    When does a neighborhood name become a trademark?

    December 18, 2024 - Stephanie Reveron sued multiple companies, including Zumiez, New Balance, Amazon, Etsy, Zazzle, and Redbubble, for trademark infringement. Plaintiff claimed that her trademarks, such as LES . . .

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  2. DefamationUnfair Competition

    Alex Jones gets partial win in Connecticut lawsuit over unfair trade practices 

    December 10, 2024 - Erica Lafferty, William Sherlach, and other family members of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting sued Alex Jones, Free Speech Systems, LLC, and . . .

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  3. CybersquattingTrademarks

    Redirecting URL was unlawful but did not cause damages

    April 2, 2024 - In the months leading up to the FDA shutting down plaintiff's business, one of the co-owners of the business left and set up a competing . . .

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  4. Unfair Competition

    Online retailer’s use of photo of products it did not sell was not an unfair or deceptive act

    July 27, 2021 - Defendant online guitar retailer used on its website a photo of premium guitar necks – products that the online retailer did not sell. Plaintiff – . . .

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  5. CopyrightUnfair Competition

    Web scraping case fails under Dastar

    November 19, 2018 - Claim against owner of website for scraping content failed, where plaintiff failed to allege improper removal of copyright management information, and where claim for passing . . .

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  6. Section 230

    Anti-malware provider immune under CDA for calling competitor’s product a security threat

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  7. ContractsUnfair Competition

    Court reinstates SCO’s misappropriation claim against IBM in long-running lawsuit

    October 30, 2017 -

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  8. CopyrightTrademarks

    No copyright protection for two word phrase

    February 3, 2014 -

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  9. Electronic DiscoveryTrademarks

    Court allows discovery of competitor’s keyword purchases

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  10. Privacy

    Court dismisses unfair competition claim against Facebook over alleged privacy violation

    June 3, 2011 -

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