all - Opinion Summaries

Bodum USA, Inc. v. A Top New Casting Inc.

Intellectual Property, Trade Dress
Held that the manufacturer of a coffeemaker infringed the unregistered trade dress of a competitor's widely lauded product by mimicking the overall...

High Point Design, LLC v. LM Insurance Corp.

Insurance Law, Trade Dress
Affirmed that insurance companies had a duty to provide a defense to a footwear wholesaler that was being sued in an intellectual property case for...

OTR Wheel Engineering, Inc. v. West Worldwide Services, Inc.

Trade Dress, False Advertising, Intellectual Property
Affirmed a judgment of liability under the Lanham Act for reverse passing off. At trial, a jury found that a manufacturer of industrial tires had...

Moldex-Metric, Inc. v. McKeon Products, Inc.

Trademark, Intellectual Property, Trade Dress
Reversing the district court's summary judgment in favor of the defendant in a suit for trademark infringement relating to foam earplugs in a specific...

Adidas America, Inc. v. Sketchers USA, Inc.

Trade Dress, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
Affirming in part and reversing in part a preliminary injunction prohibiting Sketchers from selling shoes that allegedly infringe and dilute Adidas's...

Evans v. Building Materials Corp. of Am.

Patent, Trade Dress, Intellectual Property, Contracts
In a complaint alleging design-patent infringement under federal law as well as trade-dress infringement and unfair competition under federal and...

Direct Technologies, LLC v. Electronic Arts, Inc.

Trade Dress, Copyright, Cyberspace Law
In a copyright infringement and trade secret case arising out of a contract for plaintiff to produce a USB flash drive shaped like a 'PlumbBob' a...

Millennium Laboratories, Inc. v. Ameritox, Ltd.

Trade Dress, Intellectual Property
In a trade dress action, the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendant is reversed where there is a genuine fact issue as to whether...

Apple v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Intellectual Property, Patent, Trade Dress
In an infringement case involving intellectual property related to the iPhone,a jury verdict finding that Samsung infringed Apple's design and utility...

Fair Wind Sailing Inc v. H. Dempster

Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Dress
In this action alleging that defendants infringed upon plaintiff's trade dress in violation of the Lanham Act and unjustly enriched themselves by...