Thursday, May 07, 2020

Forthcoming article: Michael A. Carrier & Rebecca Tushnet, An Antitrust Framework for False Advertising

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Michael A. Carrier & Rebecca Tushnet, An Antitrust Framework for False Advertising , Iowa Law Review, Forthcoming Abstract: Fe...
Tuesday, May 05, 2020

circumventing insurance can violate consumer protection law

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Franks v Sykes, No. W2018-00654-SC-R11-CV, 2020 WL 2097544, -- S.W.3d --- (Tenn. May 1, 2020) I usually try to stick to advertising-re...

Reading List: Greg Klass on false advertising law as private law

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Gregory Klass, FalseAdvertising Law and New Private Law , Forthcoming as: False Advertising Law, in Oxford Handbook of New Private Law (An...
Monday, May 04, 2020

9th Circuit panel divides on evidence of injury in false advertising case

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VBS Distribution, Inc. v. Nutrivita Laboratories, Inc., --- Fed.Appx. ----, 2020 WL 2086557, No. 18-56317 (9th Cir. Apr. 30, 2020) The...
Friday, May 01, 2020

TM may look like a certification mark, but that doesn't harm a competing trade organization

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North American Olive Oil Ass’n v. D’avolio Inc., 16-CV-6986 (SJF) (ARL), 2020 WL 2079421 (E.D.N.Y. Apr. 30, 2020) NAOOA, a trade assoc...

Seventh Circuit mostly ends corn syrup war: Coors can't bar AB from touting "ingredients"

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Molson Coors Beverage Co. USA v. Anheuser-Busch Cos., Nos. 19-2200, 19-2713, 19-2782, 19-3097 & 19-3116 (7th Cir. May 1, 2020) I t...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Reasonable restaurant consumers wouldn't think "krab mix" had real crab in it

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Kang v. P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc., No. CV 19-02252 PA (SPx), 2020 WL 2027596 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 9, 2020) Kang alleged that P.F. Cha...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Common sense can't show materiality for damages purposes in Fifth Circuit

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Illinois Tool Works, Inc. v. Rust-Oleum Corporation, --- F.3d ----, No. 19-20210, 2020 WL 1808871 (5th Cir. Apr. 9, 2020) The Fifth Cir...

11th Circuit protects (at least some) truthful references to product creation

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Webster v. Dean Guitars, --- F.3d ----, 2020 WL 1887783, No. 19-10013 (11th Cir. Apr. 16, 2020) Buddy Webster (pka Buddy Blaze), a suc...
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Friday, April 17, 2020

reasonable consumers wouldn't think Dunkin Donuts Angus Steak was intact piece of meat

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Chen v. Dunkin’ Brands, Inc., No. 18-3087-cv, --- F.3d ----, 2020 WL 1522826 (2d Cir. Mar. 31, 2020) Plaintiffs sued Dunkin for decept...

1201 claim to control device features survives

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Philips North America, LLC v. v. Summit Imaging Inc., 2020 WL 1515624, No. C19-1745JLR (W.D. Wash. Mar. 30, 2020) But I was told that ...

Humvees in Call of Duty are constitutionally protected realism, not confusing/diluting

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AM General LLC v. Activision Blizzard, Inc., No. 17 Civ. 8644 (GBD) (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 31, 2020) The district court allows Humvees to appe...

Rogers continues to collapse into transformativeness in the Ninth Circuit: dog toy edition

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VIP Products LLC v. Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc., No. 18-16012 (9th Cir. Mar. 21, 2020) VIP Products sells the “Bad Spaniels Silly S...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

lawsuit against supplement for implying arthritis claims not preempted

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Yamagata v. Reckitt Benckiser LLC, 2020 WL 1505724, No. 17-cv-03529-VC (N.D. Cal. Mar. 30, 2020) A very clear opinion.  Yamagata chall...

T-Mobile is plausibly liable for acts of explicitly authorized dealers

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City of New York v. T-Mobile USA, Inc., 2020 WL 1498522, No. 451540/2019 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Mar. 23, 2020) The City of New York and the Ne...