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Ninth Circuit Tells Trademark Owners to Stop Suing Over Competitive Keyword Ads–Lerner & Rowe v. Brown Engstrand

Eric Goldman

I wrote a whole paper just about that in 2016–we’re still discussing it 8 years later. ” Ugh, seriously, nooooo… Keyword metatags are the trees that fall in the forest that no one hears. The court is telling trademark owners, as plain as it can, to stop bringing competitive keyword advertising lawsuits.

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2024 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear the TikTok ban, and Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear Free Speech Coalition v. If any of those lawsuits succeed, they pose a potential existential threat to the entire industry. Emoji Law Cases Are.

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Our Law Firm Won’t Cave to Trump. Who Will Join Us–NYTimes.com

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The order left no doubt that Perkins Coies primary offense was representing Hillary Clinton in 2016 and standing up for other causes Mr. Trump views unfavorably. On March 11, the courageous and skillful law firm Williams & Connolly filed a lawsuit on Perkins Coies behalf, seeking to enjoin the presidents order on constitutional grounds.

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Snap Makes a Spectacle of Itself Over Trademark Dispute

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the owners of Snapchat and Bitmoji, are also a the self-styled “camera” company, and have been selling augmented reality (AR) glasses under the name “Spectacles” since 2016. Brett Trout Snap, Inc., 87/177,292), but that trademark application has been repeatedly rejected by the USPTO.

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The 9th Circuit Keeps Trying to Ruin Cybersecurity–Enigma v. Malwarebytes

Eric Goldman

In 2016, Malwarebytes classified Enigma’s software as “malicious,” a “threat,” and a “potentially unwanted program” (or PUP), because the programs allegedly were “scareware.” The lawsuit’s lengthy duration and high defense cost has significant substantive implications.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. In Australia, legal tech company Nuix went public in 2020 – an IPO that has been haunted by regulatory investigations and class-action lawsuits over claims that the company misrepresented its financial information.).

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

For those reasons, I strongly suspect this will not be the last we hear of this case. In 2016, Time “embedded” one of Brauer’s Instagram posts, featuring one of his photos of Hilary Clinton, in its entirety (preserving his username or “handle”, his caption, and his links and hashtags). One can hear the protests of “that’s socialism!”