Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co.’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.3d 983 · 2015
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (§ 43 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 35 U.S.C. § 289
Relies on Inwood Laboratories, Inc. v. Ives Laboratories, Inc. · Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co. · Gorham Company v. White · TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc. · 134 S. Ct. 2120 - Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any article of manufacture to which [a patented] design or colorable imitation has been applied shall be liable to the owner to the extent of his total profit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he innards of Samsung's smartphones were not sold separately from their shells as distinct articles of manufacture to ordinary purchasers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“patented design, or any colorable imitation thereof, to any article of manufacture for the purpose of sale”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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