Dallas Cowboys Football Club, Ltd. v. America's Team Properties, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding a strong likelihood of confusion when an alleged infringer used the exact same words consisting of the trademark owner’s mark
• considering trademark cancellation as remedy only after finding Lanham Act violations
• “‘The Internet’ is simply too broad to assert complete overlap of retail outlets; it is akin to saying ‘stores’ or ‘distributors.’”
• “Section 33(b)(1) of the Lanham Act provides a defense against a registered mark when a ‘registration . . . was obtained fraudulently.” (quoting 15 U.S.C. § 1115(b)(1))
• existence of stars in defendant's logo was insufficient to offset other similarities

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).