Edison v. Edison Polyform & Manufacturing Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• enjoining a third party from using the name or likeness of inventor Thomas Edison to promote its own products
• enjoining a company from using the name or likeness of Thomas Edison to promote its products
• enjoining a third party from using the name or likeness of inventor Thomas Edison to promote its own products
• “It is certain that a man in public life may not claim the same immunity from publicity that a private citizen may.”
• involving use of plaintiff's photograph on defendant's medicinal product
• “[I]t is difficult to understand why the peculiar cast of one’s features is not ... one’s property, and why its pecuniary value, if it has one, does not belong to its owner, rather than to the person seeking to make an unauthorized use of it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lugosi v. Universal Pictures
  California Supreme Court· 1979-12-03· cited 114×
• Estate of Presley v. Russen
  D. New Jersey· 1981-04-16· cited 97×
• Albert Ettore v. Philco Television Broadcasting Corporation, Clayton, Inc. & Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, Consolidated
  Third Circuit· 1956-03-03· cited 82×
• Fairfield v. American Photocopy Equipment Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1955-12-20· cited 73×
• Hart v. Electronic Arts, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 2013-05-21· cited 49×
• Canessa v. Kislak, Inc.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1967-10-19· cited 49×
• Palmer v. Schonhorn Enterprises, Inc.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1967-07-05· cited 44×
• McFarland v. Miller
  Third Circuit· 1994-01-25· cited 42×
• Peay v. Curtis Pub. Co.
  District of Columbia· 1948-06-07· cited 36×
• Themo v. New England Newspaper Publishing Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-05-27· cited 36×
• Thayer v. Worcester Post Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1933-10-16· cited 20×
• NOC, INC. v. Schaefer
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1984-05-14· cited 16×
• Prima v. Darden Restaurants, Inc.
  D. New Jersey· 2000-01-12· cited 15×
• Vassar College v. Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co.
  W.D. Missouri· 1912-07-08· cited 12×
• Manz v. Philadelphia Brewing Co.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1940-12-12· cited 6×
• Steding v. Battistoni
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1964-10-30· cited 6×
• Hart v. Electronic Arts, Inc.
  D. New Jersey· 2011-09-09· cited 5×
• Harlow v. Buno Co.
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1939-07-26· cited 3×
• Natural Footwear Ltd. v. Hart Schaffner & Marx
  D. New Jersey· 1983-08-18· cited 3×
• Interpace Corp. v. Lapp, Inc.
  D. New Jersey· 1982-11-18· cited 2×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Folsom v. Marsh
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts· 1841-10-15· cited 150×
• Atkinson v. John E. Doherty & Co.
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1899-09-27· cited 41×