American Rice, Inc. v. The Arkansas Rice Growers Cooperative Association, D/B/A Riceland Foods

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying the Lanham Act to defendant’s sale of rice in Saudi Arabia, though the goods did not flow back into United States markets, because defendant’s business was located in the United States
• finding no conflict when defendant’s conduct was lawful under Saudi Arabian trademark law
• “Merely because the consummation of the unlawful activity occurred on foreign soil is of no assistance to the defendant”
• considering diverted sales in finding “some effects” test met
• joining the Ninth Circuit in requiring “some effect”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).