Monday, April 01, 2024

The People's Joker

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 Interesting NYT story, in which I am quoted.

Podcast on Bass Notes and Base Rates

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 I'm on Excited Utterance with Ed Cheng  discussing my article with Chris Buccafusco.
Friday, March 29, 2024

Gerber's Good Start troubles continue

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Hasemann v. Gerber Prods. Co., 2024 WL 1282368, No. 15-CV-2995(EK)(JAM), 16-CV-1153(EK)(JAM), 17-CV-0093(EK)(JAM) (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 25, 2024) ...

conjoint analysis has to isolate challenged representations

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Moore v. GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Holdings (US) LLC, --- F.Supp.3d ----, 2024 WL 348821, No: 4:20-cv-09077-JSW (N.D. Cal. Jan. 30...

disclaimers that require consumers to understand tech, history and law don't avoid lawsuit over "flushable"

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Schotte v. Stop & Shop Supermarket Co., 2024 WL 1251284, No. 1:23-cv-10897-IT (D. Mass Mar. 22, 2024) Stop & Shop allegedly decept...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

adult venue's insurer did not successfully exclude ads from ad injury coverage

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Princeton Excess & Surplus Lines Ins. Co. v. R.I. Cranston Entertainment Inc.; 2024 WL 1285631, C.A. No. 21-63-JJM-PAS (D.R.I. Mar. 26, ...
Monday, March 25, 2024

5th Circuit allows image-based tobacco warnings in barest nod to consistency on compelled commercial speech

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R J Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Food & Drug Admin., 2024 WL 1208111, --- F.4th ----, No. 23-40076 (5 th Cir. Mar. 21, 2024) The sudden sh...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Nominative fair use requires D to prevail on all 3 factors in 9th Circuit, district court concludes

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Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Luxury Home Buyers, LLC, --- F.Supp.3d ----, No.: 2:20-cv-01344-JAD-MDC (D. Nev. Jan. 16, 2024) The court grants ...

D's consumer survey defeats class action about relevance of geographic origin of water for brewing beer

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Peacock v. Pabst Brewing Co., LLC, 2024 WL 1160687, No. 2:18-cv-00568 DJC CKD (E.D. Cal. Mar. 18, 2024) Interesting defense-side use of su...

Another "buy" button lawsuit over digital licenses continues

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In re Amazon Prime Video Litig., 2024 WL 1138906, No. 2:22-cv-00401-RSM (W.D. Wash. Mar. 15, 2024) This putative class action alleged that...

CFP: Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable 2024

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The Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable co-hosted by Harvard, NYU, and the University of Pennsylvania will take place th...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Earth, Wind & Infringement: TM owner succeeds against overclaiming "reunion" band

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Earth, Wind & Fire IP, LLC v. Substantial Music Group LLC, --- F.Supp.3d ----, 2024 WL 1025265, No. 23-20884-CIV-MORENO (S.D. Fla. Mar. ...

calling an accepted Rule 68 offer a judgment of infringement could be defamatory

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Double Diamond Distribution Ltd. v. Crocs, Inc., 2024 WL 1051951No. 23-cv-01790-PAB-KAS (D. Colo. Mar. 11, 2024) I have a long-running int...
Friday, March 08, 2024

reasonable consumers aren't required to know collagen can't be vegan

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Kandel v. Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare, LLC, 2024 WL 965621, No. 23-cv-01967 (ER) (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 5, 2024) Similar California litigation at a ...
Thursday, March 07, 2024

small competitor lacks standing against big one's nondisparaging advertising

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HomeLight, Inc. v. Shkipin, --- F.Supp.3d ----, 2024 WL 940089 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 5, 2024) Sometimes, courts are very generous to competitors...