May 14, 2018 In 2016, rapper/producer, Andre Young, known professionally as “Dr. Dre,” filed oppositions to trademark applications filed by OB-GYN, Dr. Draion Burch, for protection of medical goods and services provided under the name, “Dr. Drai.” After two years, the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) found in […]
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May 9, 2018 Eaze Solutions, Inc. (“Eaze”), a prominent marijuana delivery company located in California, was recently named as a defendant in a nationwide class action lawsuit alleging violations of federal telemarketing law. The company operates a mobile application that allows its customers to have marijuana delivered on demand and facilitates customer acquisition of medical
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May 8, 2018 On May 2, 2018, a class action lawsuit based on violations of Illinois State marketing laws was filed by Plaintiff Matthew Ditnes (“Ditnes”) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Defendant Match Group, LLC. Match Group, LLC owns and operates the dating website “Match.com,” as well
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May 3, 2018 Last month, a federal district court in the Commonwealth of Virginia granted a motion to dismiss (based, in part, on mootness grounds), in a website accessibility lawsuit brought under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). This ADA lawsuit was filed by Keith Carroll (“Plaintiff”), a resident of Virginia who
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April 24, 2018 On April 16th, the Los Angeles-based artists collaborative, Pizzaboyzzz, sent a Cease and Desist letter to Kendall Jenner for using “Pizza Boys” to brand a clothing line and her Apple radio show. Pizzaboyzzz has been in operation since 2015, and sells merchandise and clothing under the Pizzaboyzzz name. Jenner’s Pizza Boys applications
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April 18, 2018 The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) entered into a settlement agreement this week with dozens of related entities and their individual owners in connection with a negative option marketing operation. The FTC had commenced a lawsuit against the parties alleging that the individual owners operated nearly sixty (60) companies that sold personal care
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April 17, 2018 On May 25, 2018, a new data protection regulation entitled General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), Regulation (EU) 2016/689, will come into force in the European Union (“EU”) and its 28 Member States. The GDPR provides significant new data privacy protections for individuals (“data subjects”), with corresponding requirements that must be implemented by
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In February of this year, legislation was initiated to expand the existing California anti-spam law to provide stricter requirements applicable to any person or entity initiating or advertising in a commercial email advertisement either sent from California or to a California email address. How Will the New Legislation Affect Commercial Email Advertising?
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