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9ddb9af4 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @abb65a6d my understanding is that the plaintiffs got the court to take action ex parte making use of tools only available under trademark. So whether or not they have a copyright claim, they abused the court by asking for extraordinary action that is only available for claims they don't actually have, nor it would appear did they have a good faith basis to believe they had them. @e7f76f0d
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Sarah Burstein | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c01c90f2 @abb65a6d Yeah, so judges are actually granting this type of extraordinary relief in other types of IP cases, not just TM cases. But in this case, the TRO was based on TM allegations and it looks like many of those TM claims were frivolous. And even though the complaint mentions "copyright" I would.....not assume there's a colorable claim here. We don't know what rights the plaintiff purports to have, etc.
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9ddb9af4 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @e7f76f0d there's something tragically funny about how I now seem to know more about these types of cases from your social media outreach than the plaintiff's attorneys in this case did. :(

Thank you for your service. :)