Friday, May 02, 2025

Sixteenth Trademark Scholars’ Roundtable Session 2: part 2

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Mid-point discussants:  Rebecca Tushnet Continuing the theme of offering a series of observations: Picking up on the relevance of 33(b)/...

Sixteenth Trademark Scholars’ Roundtable Session 2: Trademark Use as an Element of Infringement Analysis

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Mike   Grynberg: SCt opinions since 2008. Courts don’t care about TM law; every now & then a judge does, but keeping the general rule in...

Sixteenth Trademark Scholars’ Roundtable Trademark Use 2.0 part 1

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University of Minnesota Law School, May 2-3, 2025 Graeme Dinwoodie Why revisit use? ( Reading list for 2008 roundtable; sessio...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

failure to allege incremental materiality dooms false advertising counterclaims

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Intuit Inc. v. HRB Tax Group, Inc., 2025 WL 1168897, No. 5:24-cv-00253-BLF (N.D. Cal. Apr. 22, 2025) Counterclaim-plaintiff (Block) allege...
Monday, April 28, 2025

7th Circuit allows nationwide injunction under Illinois consumer protection law

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Republic Technol. (NA), LLC v. BBK Tobacco & Foods, LLP, --- F.4th ----, 2025 WL 1201401, No. 23-2973, No. 23-3096 (7 th Cir. 2025) R...

trademark infringement accusations are opinion without a final judgment

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Trevari Media, LLC v. Colasse, 758 F.Supp.3d 1175 (C.D. Cal. 2024) Colasse accused Trevari of infringing its trade dress in a “[s]pring-lo...

package claim that required users to double serving size and add ingredient was plausibly misleading despite disclaimer

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Mencia-Montes v. Fit Foods Distrib., Inc., 2025 WL 1185372, No. 24-cv-01768-EKL (N.D. Cal. Mar. 31, 2025) Courts in the 9 th Circuit have...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

nonprofits' promotion of "abortion reversal" services was commercial speech

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National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Bonta, No. 2:24-CV-08468-HDV-(MARx), 2025 WL 1140450 (C.D. Cal. Mar. 6, 2025) Not sure ...
Monday, April 21, 2025

"defeat devices" in trucks plausibly deceptive because they rendered vehicles unlawful to drive

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Biederman v. FCA US LLC, --- F.Supp.3d ----, 2025 WL 458831, No. 23-cv-06640-JSC (N.D. Cal. Feb. 11, 2025) This is a putative class action...