Appleseed Foundation Inc. v. Appleseed Institute, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Lanham Act protected plaintiffs federal service mark registration that it received for “Appleseed Center for Law and Justice” from defendant’s continued use of the name “Appleseed Institute”
• describing dilution by tarnishment as when “a junior mark presents shoddy products or services, thereby damaging the reputation of the senior mark”
• “[T]he Court looks at the effect that defendant’s use of the mark has or would have on prospective consumers within the relevant product market.”
• “[E]videnee of actual confusion is substantial proof of this element.”
• “Trademark infringement by its very nature causes irreparable injury.”
• reciting some of these factors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).