Dickerson v. Rundle

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• holding that bulk oil purchased from Shell and resold by oil wholesaler was not genuine because it was not stored according to Shell’s specifications
• treating genuineness as a threshold question to determine whether a defendant’s use of trademarks implicates trademark law, before proceeding to discuss the question of consumer confusion
• prohibiting defendant from selling bulk oil under Shell trademarks because it did not observe the strict tank and line cleaning requirements that Shell required to ensure the trademarked oil was not subject to residue impurities
• affirming the lower court’s decision that because the defendant did not follow the plaintiff’s “quality control procedures,” the defendant created a likelihood of confusion “as to the quality and source” of the goods

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).