Lucent Information Management, Inc. v. Lucent Technologies, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
186 F.3d 311 · 1999
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Aktieselskabet Af 21. November 2001 v. Fame Jeans Inc. (2008), In re Ikon Office Solutions, Inc. (2002)
14 federal appellate · 13 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1051 (§ 1 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1057 (§ 7 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1115 (§ 33 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1116 (§ 34 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (§ 43 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1127 (§ 45 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Rodriguez v. New York · Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf · United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co. · McLean v. Fleming · 1993-1 v. Petruzzi's Iga Supermarkets Inc
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]rademark rights are not created by sporadic, casual, and nominal shipments of goods bearing a mark. There must be a trade in the goods sold under the mark or at least an active and public attempt to establish such a trade. Absent these elements, no trademark can be created or exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to provide that 'use in commerce’ means the bona fide use of a mark in the ordinary course of trade, and not made merely to reserve a right in a mark.” Lucent Information Management, Inc. v. Lucent Technologies, Inc., 186 F.3d 311, 314 (3d Cir.1999). This language”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[R]elief is only available if the plaintiff establishes priority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.