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103 F. Supp. 2d 711 - Times Mirror Magazines, Inc. v. Field & Stream Licenses Co.’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
March 2019
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 4 district ·

Relationships

Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1114 (§ 32 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “), commence any civil proceeding for damages or injunctive relief, or make any other legal claim that directly or indirectly would hinder the Use Party's use of the Trademark for a product reserved exclusively to the Use Party or prevent the PTO from issuing a trademark registration to the Use Party.... 20 In June 1995, FSLC gave TM notice that it had entered into negotiations with a prospective licensee, the National Buying Syndicate (”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Insisting that a court review a settlement [of a trademark suit] to assure that no public confusion will result would make such agreements of little value to the parties.... Parties would sensibly conclude that they might better litigate the issue of confusion to conclusion rather than reach a settlement which might later be found to be unenforceable.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “on... such other products, related to hunting, fishing and associated outdoor activities, as have been offered and sold by ... FIELD & STREAM magazine under such trademark in the past ... including by way of example but not limitation figurines, prints, books, and binoculars.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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