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December Monthly Minute | The National Advertising Division (NAD)
5 Key Takeaways | Nuts and Bolts of NAD Proceedings
We get asked all the time to lay out the pros and the cons of different ways a company can challenge a competitor’s false advertising. And no surprise -- we are big fans of the National Advertising Division (NAD) process,...more
As the rest of us prepared for the Super Bowl by buying avocados to make guacamole, installing new big-screen TVs, and donning Ram/Bengal-themed face paint, select corners of corporate America are preparing for the biggest...more
TINA.org Sets Up Neurocore for an FTC Investigation - Noggin-training company somehow misses stark enforcement trend - Brain in Vain - When we report about brain-improvement therapies, we’re usually sharing news about...more
Unrollme.com Misled Users by Promising Privacy Protection - Company settles with Commission over alleged gathering of “extra” information - SOP - The internet economy is built on “free” services. ...more
Prime Rib and Primer: Boxes Trigger Subscription Suits - The latest auto-renewal cases surface in California - Self-Surprise - Subscription boxes provide consumers with special to-order deliveries – and sometimes...more
Mommy’s Bliss Baby Cold Treatment Claims in Time Out - Johnson & Johnson challenges numerous product lines before NAD - Rival Johnson & Johnson (J&J) prevails over Mommy’s Bliss....more
NARB Sheds Light on Two-for-One Ad Rules - Famed TV marketing company must adjust claims to provide full fee disclosure - Blocks Harmful Rays! “As Seen on TV” seems like one of those ready-made slogans that are just...more
At some point in any lawyer’s career, it is likely that a client will come to them demanding action about a competitor’s false advertising. Whether the competitor is lying in an explicit comparison with your client’s product...more
NARB to Unilever: Comparison Ad Requires Scrubbing - Bath & Body Works owner: ‘Cross-platform body wash campaign stinks!’ The Reveal - It’s a sunny, happy commercial – a bit of a throwback to the “blind taste test”...more
The use of beauty products is “an understudied source of environmental chemical exposures” with a disparate effect on women of color, George Washington University and Occidental College researchers argue. Ami R. Zota, et al.,...more
Come On Down! It’s always been about those commercials. Former waterbed salesman Bob Kaufman built a discount furniture empire. It expanded outward from a single Connecticut warehouse in the early 1990s to reach more...more
Abbott Nutrition did something unique. It added a new ingredient to its Similac Pro-Advance and Pro-Sensitive infant formulas that, until now, had only been available in human breast milk: 2’-fucosyllactose human milk...more
Lanham Act False Advertising - Lanham Act Liability for Native Advertising Violations - Casper Sleep, Inc. v. Mitcham, --- F. Supp. 3d ---, No. 16 Civ. 3224 (JSR), 2016 WL 4574388 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 1, 2016) - ...more
Suit Over Block Voting on Reviews Moves Forward - A Lanham Act suit brought by a competitor over a company's efforts to minimize negative consumer reviews will move forward, a Utah federal court judge has ruled. ...more
The second day began with a deep dive into the development of advanced biological drugs for animal use. David Brake, Ph.D., Founder and Principal, BioQuest Associates, LLC, helped explain the split between USDA and FDA...more
Online Reviews Not Sufficient To Support Ad Claim, NAD Rules - While recognizing the benefits of using new sources of information, the National Advertising Division (NAD) decided that an advertiser’s use of aggregated...more