City of Newark v. Beasley

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that employer need only show that employee’s motivation as “appreciably” motivated by desire to further employer’s goal
• stating that \there is no set formula as to the quantity of use required to establish mark rights. The general rule is that mark rights are not created by sporadic or de minimis use.\
• stating that employer’s control over project is factor in determining whether project was type of work plaintiff is hired to perform and finding that employer did not satisfy this element where he had no idea that plaintiff was developing computer program
• law enforcement training course developed by a police officer while “off duty” fell outside the time and spatial boundaries of his employment
• employer only required to prove that employee was at least “appreciably” motivated by a desire to further the goals of his employer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).