Eclipse Associates Limited v. Data General Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that in a “crowd” of “similar marks on similar goods” confusion between any two in the crowd is unlikely because customers “may have learned to carefully pick out one from the other”
• “These tests were not meant to be requirements or hoops that a district court need 4 jump through to make the determination.”
• “Evidence of other unrelated potential infringers 6 is irrelevant to claims of trademark infringement and unfair competition under federal law.”
• “These tests were not meant to be 16 requirements or hoops that a district court need jump through to make the determination.”
• evidence of actual confusion is difficult to obtain

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).