Am General Corporation and General Motors Corporation v. Daimlerchrysler Corporation

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• noting that No. 25-2092 13 because the plaintiff showed no likelihood of success on the merits the court had “reason enough to deny the motion for preliminary injunction without further discussion.”
• there is a “presumption that trademark dilution or infringement threatens irreparable injury for which there is no adequate remedy at law”
• “DaimlerChrysler’s dilution claim requires proof that the family of marks existed before General Motors adopted the allegedly diluting mark.”
• “[N]o likelihood of success on the merits is reason enough to deny the motion for [temporary restraining order] without further discussion.”
• “... courts evaluate similarity in light of what happens in the marketplace, rather than just by making a side-by-side comparison....”
• “DaimlerChrysler is entitled to define its trade dress, and the wearing of figurative blinders seems to be the only way to compare the similarity of the [trade dresses].”

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