horizontal restraints
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 388 U.S. 350 - United States v. Sealy, Inc. · 1967Most cited · 434 citing opinions
licensee-controlled licensor as instrumentality
Sealy, Inc., is an instrumentality of the licensees for purposes of the horizontal territorial allocation. It is not the principal. ... It would violate reality to treat them as equivalent to territorial limitations imposed by a manufacturer upon independent dealers as incident to the sale of a trademarked product.
How often courts cite the case defining “horizontal restraints”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “horizontal restraints” — 428 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.