The case revolves around
cease-and-desist letters sent by the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners (made up mostly of dentists) to teeth whitening providers who were not dentists.
In the event that future quarrels arise, the court strongly encourages the parties to eschew provocative
cease-and-desist letters or precipitous lawsuits, and instead to work together to try to resolve their differences cooperatively," he said.
This Ebook deals with
cease-and-desist letters in the field of competition law as well as trademark law, domain law, industrial design law and copyright law.
On Saturday, attorneys for Dakota Communications sent
cease-and-desist letters to Joe Barrett, who had posted the memo on the Web site for his group, No Home Depot, and Doc DeMulle, editor and publisher of The Foothills Paper.
They rarely shut down their businesses or even cancel orders in response to
cease-and-desist letters.
Months later, in October 2006, Universal started sending
cease-and-desist letters to those same bloggers and fan sites, threatening legal action for copyright violations.
Last week AFACT issued a further 10
cease-and-desist letters to people trading in illegal DVD movies on Internet auction sites across Australia.
The site is intended to serve as a tool for Internet users to understand their legal rights in the face of potentially intimidating and confusing
cease-and-desist letters," says spokesperson Donna Wentworth.
Just as routinely, artists are now the recipients of
cease-and-desist letters from trademark owners claiming infringement.
We were seeing a lot of
cease-and-desist letters floating around the Internet," she says, "some of them pretty poorly grounded in the law," and, she notes, they were having a chilling effect on free speech on the Web.
It's easy to create and distribute things digitally these days, so the big entertainment combines are in a panic, sending out
cease-and-desist letters left and right.
If successful, the suit against Verizon would pave the way for ailing record companies to send out reams of
cease-and-desist letters to alleged music pirates, scaring them into submission rather than going through the long process of suing each one in court.
