Venable's AdLaw Symposium is back!
Please join us in our Washington, DC, headquarters for this highly anticipated event focused on providing you with the information you need to promote your brand with confidence....more
3/7/2025
/ Advertising ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Auto-Renewal ,
Best Practices ,
Beverage Manufacturers ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Data Privacy ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Events ,
False Advertising ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Fees ,
Food Manufacturers ,
Greenwashing ,
Legal Ethics ,
Marketing ,
NAD ,
Pricing ,
Privacy Laws ,
Risk Mitigation ,
State Regulators ,
Subscription Services
In July, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought a complaint against Career Step LLC for targeting servicemembers with misrepresentations concerning Career Step’s ability to match its customers with jobs in the healthcare...more
Last month, in a joint effort with the Department of Labor (DOL), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled an action against Arise Virtual Solutions, Inc. related to charges that the company regularly used misleading...more
8/2/2024
/ Advertising ,
Business Opportunity Laws ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Advertising ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FTC Act ,
Gig Economy ,
Independent Contractors ,
Job Ads ,
Misleading Statements ,
Section 5 ,
Statutory Violations
It’s that time of year again—Ad Law Symposium is back!
Please join us in DC for this highly anticipated event focused on providing you with the information you need to promote your brand with confidence. Combining the...more
2/22/2024
/ Advertising ,
Advertising Substantiation ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Automatic Renewals ,
Best Practices ,
Defense Strategies ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Events ,
False Advertising ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Green Marketing ,
Lanham Act ,
Legal Ethics ,
Marketing ,
Pricing ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Social Media ,
State Privacy Laws ,
Telemarketing ,
Text Messages
When another lawyer told me recently that he used ChatGPT to get a jump start on a work assignment, I realized that while, as an IP lawyer, I had heard so much about this program, I had never actually used it. The next day, I...more
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission issued a Notice of Penalty Offense regarding substantiation for product claims to 670 companies in the health-related marketing space. This new Notice is yet another signal from the FTC...more
In Part 1 of our two-part series about advertising in the metaverse, we summarized its history, discussed its broad implications, and analyzed the attention regulators are giving to false advertising in this area. In...more
8/31/2022
/ Advertising ,
Blockchain ,
Brand ,
Celebrity Endorsements ,
Contests & Promotions ,
Endorsements ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Influencers ,
Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) ,
Marketing ,
Metaverse ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Popular ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Sweepstakes ,
Trademarks
In his 1992 sci-fi thriller Snow Crash, author Neal Stephenson allowed his characters to escape from a dystopian Los Angeles into a completely virtual realm he called the metaverse. Thirty years later, in the age of...more
8/29/2022
/ Advertising ,
Brand ,
Corporate Branding ,
FTC Act ,
Global Market ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Lanham Act ,
Metaverse ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Popular ,
Virtual Reality
Given the recent rise in the popularity and profitability of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), celebrities have entered the market not only by purchasing NFTs, but also by minting their own. However, because NFTs often involve the...more
A couple of weeks ago, we wrote an article concerning Nike's lawsuit against StockX. The original complaint primarily concerned StockX's nascent NFT program and Vault NFT offerings, alleging that the StockX NFTs featuring...more
5/18/2022
/ Amended Complaints ,
Class Action ,
Counterfeiting ,
Dilution ,
Fair Use ,
False Advertising ,
First Sale Doctrine ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Nike ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Trademark Infringement ,
Trademark Litigation ,
Trademarks
In 2019, the global sneaker resale market equaled $6 billion. By 2030, some analysts predict it will top $30 billion. At the cutting edge of that growth are companies like StockX, a Detroit-based company that, along with...more
5/10/2022
/ Affirmative Defenses ,
Digital Goods ,
Fair Use ,
First Sale Doctrine ,
Global Market ,
Misrepresentation ,
Nike ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Private Resales ,
Trademarks ,
Virtual Goods
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint in the Northern District of Illinois against the Saint James School of Medicine (SJSM), an Illinois-based for-profit medical school, claiming its Caribbean medical...more
A few weeks ago, we wrote an article discussing two enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission in the Central and Southern Districts of California that highlighted the risks to payment processors and financial...more
4/14/2022
/ Aiding and Abetting ,
Breach of Duty ,
Criminal Conspiracy ,
Enforcement ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Financial Institutions ,
Fraud ,
Payment Processors ,
Receivership ,
Unfair Competition Law (UCL) ,
Wells Fargo
In its much-anticipated cryptocurrency executive order issued earlier this month, the Biden administration called for a coordinated interagency approach to the regulation of digital assets and to the study of their potential...more