Emi Catalogue Partnership Emi Robbins Catalog Inc v. Hill Holliday Connors Cosmopulos Inc Spalding Sports Worldwide’s Empirical Analysis
228 F.3d 56 · 2000
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Chambers v. Time Warner, Inc. (2002), JA Apparel Corp. v. Abboud (2009)
21 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. · Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios Inc · United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co. · Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co.
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Trademark law is concerned with protection of the symbols, elements or devices used to identify a product in the marketplace and to prevent confusion as to its source. It does not protect the content of a creative work of artistic expression as a trademark for itself. Copyright law protects the artist’s right in an abstract design or other creative work.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof ... which ... is likely to cause confusion ... as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`an appreciable number of ordinarily prudent purchasers'”
2 later decisions 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.