Satomi Aki is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Ever since Madonna launched her clothing line, Material Girl, in August 2010, it has been plagued by a trademark infringement suit. Two weeks after the line went on sale exclusively at Macy’s Department Stores in the United States, LA Triumph Inc filed a lawsuit against Madonna’s company, MG Icon LLC, claiming the rights to the Material Girl trademark. In the latest development, the US District Court denied a motion for summary judgment made by MG Icon to dispose of the suit and ordered that the suit should proceed to trial.

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Satomi Aki is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.

On August 10, 2011, the US District Court denied Christian Louboutin S.A.’s motion for an preliminary injunction against Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) to stop marketing the shoes that allegedly infringe Louboutin’s trademarked red lacquered heel pending the outcome of the trademark infringement lawsuit that was filed in April 2011 (For more see Canada Fashion Law blogger and Osgoode alum Ashlee Froese’s IPilogue post).

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Satomi Aki is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the independent advertising watchdog of the UK, upheld On July 13, 2011, complaints against Jamster, a SMS mobile phone content provider, over their ad for a joke phone hacking app that was originally televised in April 2011.

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