I ♡ Trademarks NewsletterIssue #458
Bri Van Til | November 18, 2025
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Bot and Sold
If you’re using an AI tool to determine if another tool is AI, how do you know if it’s telling you the truth or if it’s just helping its homie dupe you?
Join us for this webinar to hear about how AI is impacting and being used for trademark law.
As voice cloning and altering technology gets more prevalent and higher quality, it begs the question of who owns a voice.
The same question applies to your face. Come to this webinar next year to hear about strategies for combatting deepfakes.
A judge in the Southern District of New York has found that AI-produced news summaries may violate outlets’ copyrights.
Mistaken for Granted
Sony is suing an eBay seller for over $2 million for selling allegedly counterfeit items on the platform.
Trademark infringement woes have led to many Buy Nothing-named pages being shut down on social media. The founders of Buy Nothing want you to mostly do that, with the exception of their app, which they’d like people to pay for.
The trademark infringement fight in India between OFFICER’S CHOICE and ORIGINAL CHOICE led to actual confusion when one of the justices commented that the whiskey packaging looked like juice.
Campbell’s souper unsurprising trademark infringement lawsuit against a Michigan congressional candidate has been settled.
I(P)cons
Condom manufacturer SKYN is taking issue with Kim Kardashian’s SKKN trademark applications. Apparently SKYN to SKKN is just a little too close for comfort.
How careful do sports teams have to be about displaying fans’ images on the jumbo screen?
Paul McCartney is protesting the UK’s proposed copyright law changes, via a vinyl recording.
Eminem is standing up to small Australian swimwear company Swim Shady. Does he need to sue them, though, since he told us decades ago that they were just imitating?
Professional Concerns
A little birdie told me there’s an opening for a VP of IP here, and I don’t think you’re going to be able to LIV with yourself if you don’t apply for it.
People get really animated when I tell them there’s a senior IP counsel position open at Disney.
Help GE bring good things to life as chief IP counsel.
I can’t see a reason why you shouldn’t apply for this compliance position at Invisible.
Have an open role on your team? Email us at [email protected], and we’ll try to get it in our next newsletter!
Odds and Ends
Pound for pound, the UKIPO is raising its rates in April.
This headline proclaiming, “open source under fire” buries the lede that the open-source code specifically allowed users to get Spotify’s premium service for free. Anyway, the platform objects. Music is for everyone, but it’s not free.
The fight about WALLSTREETBETS is being appealed to the Supreme Court.
There will be no newsletter next week because of the holiday. I wish a fabulous Thanksgiving to those who celebrate, and pie to everyone.