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

Eric Goldman

Actual Confusion : Some data about the advertiser’s campaign: The advertiser’s ads showed up in response to the “Lerner & Rowe” keyword trigger 109,322 times. Consumer search behavior has been studied extensively, and consumers in fact click on non-identical searches all of the time.

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2024 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. The Supreme Court is taking a steady stream of Internet Law cases, a trend that will continue for some time. If any of those lawsuits succeed, they pose a potential existential threat to the entire industry. FOLLOW ME THERE! 2) Congress Banned TikTok.

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4 Strategies for Preventing and Handling Frivolous Lawsuits

Lawmatics

There are more than 40 million lawsuits in the United states alone every year. And only 2% of those will ultimately proceed with a lawsuit. Contract and small claims cases comprise the bulk of the civil caseload, and unfortunately, most of these lawsuits are baseless claims, also known as frivolous lawsuits.

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eBay Isn’t Liable for Merchants’ Sales of Items That Violate Environmental Laws–US v. eBay

Eric Goldman

eBay defeats the lawsuit. The EZ Lynk court held that the marketplace qualified for Section 230–what I characterized at the time as “an embarrassing loss for the government.” Presumably the downplayed language was designed to discourage class action lawsuits). Is eBay the “Seller”?

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Strategies and Tips for Writing a Personal Injury Demand Letter

Clio

For example, has a lawsuit been filed yet, or is the litigation proceeding and discovery underway? Demand for compensation and (possibly) settlement amount Your demand letter should definitely provide some sense of the overall value of your client’s case and what could potentially be recovered at trial.

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Deploying Cutting-Edge Legal AI: Travers Smith’s Cautious, But Open-source Approach. (TGIR Ep. 216)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

I’ve been a longtime listener, but it’s great to be able to join you first time as a contributor to say Travis Smith, we’re a UK law firm. We can track him it’s been used. And that most of the time, we don’t have enough time to read all of the information to assess the risk appropriately. Oliver Bethell 2:09 Absolutely.

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2024 Law Firm Data Security Guide: How to Keep Your Law Firm Secure

Clio

on social media) Loss of public and client trust in your firm Malpractice allegations and lawsuits What are your ethical and regulatory obligations? Conduct regular reviews It’s easy to overlook weaknesses in your law firm’s data security if you don’t take the time to review it.