PissedConsumer Defeats Trademark Claim…On a Motion to Dismiss!?–deVere v. Opinion Corp.
…site for consumer complaints. PissedConsumer has superseded Ripoff Report as the leading gripe site defendant, as I’ve blogged three other PissedConsumer cases in the past 7 months (Ascentive, Vo and…
H1 2012 Quick Links, Part 5 (Consumer Reviews, Content Regulation, Miscellaneous)
…into their contracts to suppress negative online reviews. * Ascentive, LLC v. Opinion Corp., 2012 WL 1569573 (E.D.N.Y. May 3, 2012). Ascentive voluntarily dismissed its lawsuits against PissedConsumer without prejudice….
H1 2012 Quick Links, Part 3 (Advertising & Privacy)
…clicks on display ads have almost no correlation with conversion. * AdWeek: SheKnows.com editors caught encouraging staffers to click on ads shown on the website. * Ascentive settles false advertising…
Another Bad Ruling for PissedConsumer on Trademark and 47 USC 230 Claims–Amerigas v. Opinion Corp.
…between Amerigas and PissedConsumer. Likelihood of Consumer Confusion. PissedConsumer won the Ascentive case in part for lack of consumer confusion. However, that was in response to Ascentive’s preliminary injunction motion…
PissedConsumer Denied Section 230 Immunity and Can’t Shake Extortion Claim—Vo v. Opinion Corp.
…Regarding Vo’s defamation claims, PissedConsumer defended on 47 USC 230. In one of the most important cyberlaw rulings of 2011, PissedConsumer won a 230 defense in the analogous Ascentive case,…
Top Internet Law Developments of 2011
…Boop to the world. * PhoneDog v Kravitz. An interesting battle over ownership of a Twitter account. * Levitt v Yelp/Ascentive v. PissedConsumer. 47 USC 230 still works really, really…
Attempted Trademark Workaround to 47 USC 230 Immunity Fails Badly—Ascentive v. PissedConsumer [Catch-Up Post]
…6181452 (E.D.N.Y. Dec. 13, 2011). A prior blog post on a different Ascentive lawsuit, Ascentive v. Google. In my Regulation of Reputational Information paper, I explain how vendors are misusing…
Ripoff Report May Be “Appalling,” But It Still Gets 47 USC 230 Immunity–Giordano v. Romeo
…business model (I’ll explain more in my forthcoming post on Ascentive v. PissedConsumer), and I continue to have reservations that inaccurate information can remain on the Internet even if judges…
Academic Literature Recap, Q4 2011
…including the UMG v. Shelter Capital and Ascentive v. Opinion Corp. rulings. I’ll get to these and other topics soon. In the interim, just in time for the holidays, let…
Flowbee Latest Trademark Owner to Sue Google–Flowbee v. Google
…Jurin and Ascentive lawsuits against Google dissolved, the Google lawsuit tally is once again on the rise. Flowbee is the latest trademark owner to line up against Google. This brings…