Lasko Products, LLC (“Lasko”) and the Hesung Innovation Corp./DREO Limited (“DREO”) are competitors, both specializing in the fan and heater market. Recently, Lasko filed a Fast-Track SWIFT challenge with the National Advertising Division (NAD). Fast-Track SWIFT is an expedited process by NAD for reviewing single-issue advertising cases. Lasko argued that DREO’s claims were misleading by…

In a recent precedential cancellation decision, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) partially granted Respondent’s motion for summary judgment, holding that the parties’ stipulation that prior proceedings between them be dismissed “WITH PREJUDICE, with CONSENT of both parties, and without the entry of judgment against either party,” was sufficient to support a claim preclusion…

Yesterday, in the first U.S. ruling on the closely scrutinized question of fair use in the AI-related copyright litigation context, U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bilbas, sitting in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware by designation from the Third Circuit, held that U.S. copyright law did not permit Thomson Reuters’s now-defunct former competitor,…

Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had finalized changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule to set new requirements around the collection, use, and disclosure of children’s personal information, including requirements that parents opt-in to third-party advertising before third-parties can share and monetize children’s data.

According to the FTC’s…

Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a 65-page report detailing what it views as its accomplishments over the last four years. In a press release summarizing the report, the FTC touts the following accomplishments specifically:

• “Putting Money Back in Americans’ Pocketbooks.” In this category, the FTC touts its rule banning junk fees and finalizing

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