Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2023

” The abstract: This paper describes a sophisticated but underreported system of mass-defendant intellectual property litigation called the “Schedule A Defendants Scheme” (the “SAD Scheme”), which occurs most frequently in the Northern District of Illinois as a way to target Chinese online marketplace vendors. Free RSVP!

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 12, 2023

.” Some details about its lawsuit: Betty’s Best sued 1,099 defendants in a single complaint. As usual, the Schedule A provides threadbare information about each defendant. Why did Betty’s Best name “only” 1,099 defendants on this one complaint? Only 1,035 defendants more to address.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 21, 2024

Defendant’s misgivings, meaning any facts that might demonstrate the defendant’s lack of character or empathy. “The article’s allegations are clearly defamatory as they accuse the plaintiff of criminal activity.” A description of the matter and chronology of events. Facts sympathetic to your client.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 4, 2024

The plaintiff sued 163 defendants for online marketplace sales and got an ex parte TRO, including Amazon account freezes. After a couple of defendants showed up, the judge denied a TRO extension because of the possible lack of merit in the plaintiff’s infringement allegations. Then, the case fell apart. See ECF No.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 6, 2025

Though Microsoft is the named defendant in the case, the real players here are the New York Times and OpenAI. Notably, New York Times reporter Cade Metz wrote an article about what OpenAI was doing more than three years before the filing of the complaint. The court agreed. Universal City Studios, Inc., 417, 442, 104 S.Ct. 774, 78 L.Ed.2d

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’m pleased to share the final published version of my article, “ A SAD Scheme of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation.” ” The article explains how IP rightsowners are twisting the rule of law to obtain ex parte TROs that prompt online marketplaces to freeze the defendants’ cash and accounts.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 28, 2025

The plaintiff, a fast-fashion vendor operating under the brand Modlily, filed a complaint under seal against 20 defendants, got an ex parte TRO and asset freeze, and rolled to an unopposed preliminary injunction. ” Are the claims against those other defendants still active? This started out like every other SAD Scheme case.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 21, 2024

“Plaintiff alleges Defendants downloaded and copied Plaintiff’s copyrighted materials from YouTube, and then re-uploaded infringing versions of Plaintiff’s copyrighted media content to their YouTube channels.” ” Viral DRM sued 20 defendants enumerated in a Schedule A and got an ex parte TRO. Jurisdiction.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

[Note: the defendants in this case are enumerated on an “Annex A” instead of “Schedule A.” Judge Harjani says the plaintiff’s papers contain “a fair amount of conclusory language about a logical relationship among all defendants but not much, if any, facts to actually support that relationship.”

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 25, 2025

Seeking redress, Plaintiffs sued Defendants on the theory that their design decisions and failure to disclose the dangers of their products were the cause of D.G.s As a result, I expect that defendants in other online addiction cases will be highlighting this opinion in their defenses. addiction and Plaintiffs injuries.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

MARCH 21, 2024

Jacobson Products held that a trademark can be asserted on colors that have a distinguishing function without any other significant function such as affecting the cost or quality of the article. In December 2023, a Turin court ruled to protect the white sole on Italian quiet luxury brand Loro Piana’s Open Walks Chukka boots.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 4, 2025

Schedule A Defendants Judge Rejects SAD Scheme JoinderToyota v. Schedule A Defendants Another Judge Balks at SAD Scheme JoinderXie v. Schedule A Defendants Judge Hammers SEC for Lying to Get an Ex Parte TROSEC v. Schedule A Defendants Why Online Marketplaces Dont Do More to Combat the SAD SchemeSquishmallows v.

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Debevoise Data Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Among the DMCA’s provisions were Section 1202’s protections for CMI: identifying information about the source of the copyrighted work and its owner that is commonly attached to the work via a physical marking, such as a watermark, or in the metadata of file, and which also includes information like the name of an author on an online article.

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Colin S. Levy

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In your frustration, you quickly draft a response thats equally sharp, eager to defend your position. Imagine youve been working on a contentious case, and opposing counsel has just sent a particularly aggravating email filled with accusatory language.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

A look back at 2024 shows that plaintiffs are learning from the initial wave of cases filed against AI developers, and that plaintiffs are now adapting their claimsas well as the defendants they are suingto meet the shifting legal terrain. 1] Proving Defendants Use of Training Data Inputs. Copyright Office.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 8, 2024

The SAD Scheme involves a trademark owner suing dozens/hundreds of defendants using a sealed complaint, getting an ex parte TRO, and then having the online marketplaces freeze the defendants’ accounts and money. Schedule A Defendants Why Online Marketplaces Don’t Do More to Combat the SAD Scheme–Squishmallows v.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 19, 2024

Take a look at the numbers: Amazon restrained $155k+ of the defendant’s money. That’s just for one of the many defendants in this case. “Defendant admits that it profited $32.30 The defendant fought back with its own damages expert. Would fair use apply? This post focuses on the case economics.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 7, 2024

US Weekly published two articles on the story and posted to Instagram. First, the plaintiff didn’t connect this lack of diligence to the article’s author. Elon Musk “secretly” fathered twins with his subordinate Shivon Zilis. When the news came to light, it triggered a “tabloid feeding frenzy.”

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Twitter , “the Court [referring to himself in the third person] paid insufficient heed to the requirement that Kelly Toys provide proof of the Alibaba Defendants’ knowledge.” The Court’s contempt Order was therefore improper under Rule 65(d)(2)(C) and must be vacated. .”

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LLRX

AUGUST 8, 2021

On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness.

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LLRX

MAY 8, 2022

On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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LLRX

JULY 30, 2022

On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Trial Technology

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The graphic shown above might offer a foreshadowing, or perhaps even an executive summary of the remainder of this article – or at least my opinion of some parts of the show. It’s sort of like the “ CSI Effect ,” where jurors have come to expect some serious technology used in the courtroom to convict or acquit a defendant.

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Trial Technology

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

This is one trial exhibit you never want to see – at least as the Defendant in your own trial. It was created specifically for this article. One Exhibit You NEVER Want to See (click to zoom in) Can you recall watching some case where an exhibit like this might be appropriate? The exhibit shown here is not part of an actual Complaint.

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MatterSuite

JANUARY 10, 2025

This article aims to clarify the distinction between council and counsel to help individuals navigate these terms correctly in both legal and everyday settings. For example: The defendants counsel presented a strong case. While both are related to providing advice or guidance, their usage differs depending on the context.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

You can easily recycle your blog posts as articles on Medium. You can post up to three articles a day and edit them on Medium before publishing. Once you publish an article, Medium generates a new URL and prompts you to post the new URL on social media. Fourth Quick Recycle: Medium.com. It’s also slow. Maximizing Your Effort.

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Legal IT Group

MAY 17, 2023

The Cologne District Court ruling only applies to the defendant in the case, Telekom Deutschland GmbH. Recently, the Cologne District Court ruled that a German mobile operator’s use of Google Analytics violated the GDPR’s requirements for international data transfers.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 3, 2023

As this test can be applied on a motion to dismiss when a defendant is using another’s trademark to communicate information, ideas, or viewpoints, our proposed fair use defense is similar to the Rogers test first developed by the Second Circuit in Rogers v. Thus, it is easier for the defendant to win on a motion to dismiss under this test.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 12, 2025

An allegation that “a defendant filed false Amazon counterfeit reports” is sufficient to state a claim. This is true even if the defendants made its associated fact claims to Amazon “under penalty of perjury.” Fackrell’s article ). ” Um, no. .” ” Um, no.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is impossible to discuss the current state or future strategies of anticounterfeiting and antipiracy enforcement without addressing the phenomenon of rightsowners enumerating IP defendants on sealed Schedule As, a phenomenon I call the “SAD Scheme.”

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Snapchat successfully defends on Section 230 grounds. The court responds: The result in Lemmon makes sense, of course, because the plaintiffs there did not attempt to hold the defendant liable for publication of third-party content. Law360 article. She sued Snapchat for her harms. Note: the abuser was convicted and jailed).

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The costs of defending those lawsuits is a financial punishment with censorial consequences, even if the defendant never violated the law. The court explains why no state actor is responsible for enforcing the law, so the plaintiffs lack Article III standing. The scheme has countless downsides.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2016, the defendant IJR published an article/listicle titled “15 Signs Your Daddy Was a Conservative.” The defendant did not give the specified attribution. The IJR “article generated approximately $2 to $3 in advertising revenue for IJR based on the number of page views it received.” Amount Taken.

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Legal Expert Connections

JUNE 16, 2025

Whether the issue involves valuation disputes, lost profits, or allegations of financial fraud, attorneys rely on forensic accountants to provide the objective, analytical firepower needed to build or defend a case. This article addresses the topic of forensic accounting marketing.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 23, 2023

This article gives some background on Fyk’s story). Fyk’s alleged injury has no connection whatsoever to any conduct by the United States, the only defendant in this lawsuit. However, Facebook allegedly reduced his traffic 99% and removed pages totaling 14M followers. That is the problem.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

To support these wild-sounding conspiracy claims, the plaintiffs pointed to a BBC article that relied on anonymous whistleblowers and various anonymous tips. This is the basic reason that summary judgment, at long last, must be GRANTED to Meta defendants. This case got assigned to Judge Alsup’s courtroom.

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Martindale-Avvo

MAY 26, 2023

In our findings, we see that DWI attorneys experience increased demand for their services around Memorial Day weekend as individuals charged with DUI/DWI offenses seek legal representation to defend their rights, navigate the legal process, and potentially mitigate the consequences of their charges.

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