Banjo Buddies, Inc. v. Joseph F. Renosky

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• finding no other adequate remedies when plaintiffs losses would be speculative and not disgorging profits would leave plaintiff wholly uncompensated
• noting that, because the defendant failed to prove costs, the district court was forced to use an alternative method of estimating profits and did not abuse its discretion in relying on trial testimony that was not supported by direct evidence
• “Allowing [defendant] to keep half of the estimated profits would not serve the Congressional purpose of making infringement unprofitable[.]”
• adopting a factor-based approach “in evaluating whether equity supports disgorging the infringer’s profits,” including analyzing “whether sales have been diverted”
• approving the district court’s attempt to estimate profits where it was not clear what share came from the wrongful conduct versus other legitimate business conduct because the calculation arrived at an appropriate ballpark figure
• relevant factors include defendant’s intent to deceive, whether sales were diverted, adequacy of other remedies, any unreasonable delay by plaintiff, and public interest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).