I teach at Harvard Law School. false advertising, (c), TM & more. https://xitter.cf/t.co/s2QQGmv2fB, also findable on LinkedIn and [email protected]
Washington, DC/Cambridge, MA
Joined March 2009
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Are Mexican tortillas better than those from NJ? Check out our latest short with @darshantalks and @rtushnet to discover why origin assumptions play a crucial role in food packaging laws bit.ly/3OY2qhl #foodpackaginglaws #foodlaw #marketing
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Fan Fiction is transgressive. It co-opts the creator's vision. It steps on it. It is fiction built on fiction. There can be no canon in it. I say do it, have at it. I have tried it and my Destiel is better writing than my Wincest. My Johnlock is better than both. 1/2
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Reuters report: Tesla lied about cars' range (including deliberately overoptimistic projections on range meter), triggering 1000s of user complaints and requests for service when cars under-performed, then formed secret team to cancel their appointments: reuters.com/investigates/spe…
ALT Snippet from article: "Inside the Nevada team’s office, some employees celebrated canceling service appointments by putting their phones on mute and striking a metal xylophone, triggering applause from coworkers who sometimes stood on desks. The team often closed hundreds of cases a week and staffers were tracked on their average number of diverted appointments per day."
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Timeline from some quick Googling:
Jul 3: EU decries internet shutdowns at the UNHRC
Jul 3: French govt say reports of potential shutdowns are fake news
Jul 5: Macron says on camera that shutting off Snap and TT is an option
Jul 10: EU’s Breton emphatically says DSA permits this
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Heads up! Someone using the name AO3_Status_ (note the second underscore) is impersonating this account and attempting to scam AO3 users out of money. Please block and report this account. (And please note that the real donation form is currently down due to a DDoS.)
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Companies accused of marketing cannabis food products to kids: The Federal Trade Commission says these products might look like Doritos or Nerds candy, but they're actually infused with cannabis compounds. denver7.com/companies-accuse…
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Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare Could Be Headed To Trial Over Alleged ‘Fake Collagen Cosmetic Products’ hbw.pharmaintelligence.infor…
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“should we tell legal we changed our can design at the last minute?”
“nah, why would they care”
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a LOT of people have asked me about podcast hosts who do paid ads during pods.
are they like influencers or endorsers--do they need to disclose material benefit & must they only share what appears to be personal opinions/experiences if they're their true opinions/experiences?
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standing? oh sure, anyone can manufacture that if they want it bad enough
(anyone have a phone number for a gay man I can plug into this online form to get us to the supreme court?)
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This. Is. Bonkers.
Lorie Smith, the plaintiff in the 303 Creatives and her lawyers at Alliance Defending Freedom INVENTED a same sex couple who she claimed asked her to make a wedding website.
The request that forms the basis of this lawsuit is FAKE. newrepublic.com/article/1739…
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Highly recommend this podcast about the “Taco Tuesday” trademark. WSJ reporter @jdeavila explains the phrase was used by restaurants as early as the 1930s to describe the sale of tacos on Tuesday. No restaurant should own a TM registration for such inherently valuable expression: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Hey TM peeps, The Journal. podcast has an episode breaking down the TACO TUESDAY trademark battle/history. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Today in Counterman v. Colorado, the SCOTUS majority utterly confused the distinction between prosecuting someone for making threats and for stalking them using words... supremecourt.gov/opinions/22…
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A friend who is a municipal arborist just called to tell me about a guy who cut down 32 big mature trees on his neighbor's NJ property to get a better view of NYC. He hired a guy who hired another guy. Cut them down and left the debris there. The fine per tree is $1000 so the 1/
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The tax angle may be unfamiliar to some, and has become v. important since 2017. Also, obscure but super-valuable way to dodge CA or other state income tax by paying yourself a "pension" you collect when you're retired in a tax haven (thx to a very dumb 1996 federal law).
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4/ Our consumer education team recently put up anti-fraud education materials in 12 languages in addition to English. There's a big Hmong community in Minnesota. Want to make sure they don't fall prey to a crypto scam? We got you.
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I remember the era when lots of tech journalism consisted of credulously repeating company press releases. That wasn’t good. But the fix is not to credulously repeat critics’ and regulators’ press releases instead.
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Hotel guests are suing Marriott over a daily fee at the chain’s Los Angeles-area hotels, saying the employee-protection surcharge violates California’s consumer protections and unfair competition laws. wsj.com/articles/hotel-guest…