FreecycleSunnyvale v. Freecycle Network

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “naked licensing is inherently deceptive and constitutes abandonment of any rights to the trademark by the licensor”
• noting that one such example involved \siblings who were former business partners\ for seventeen years
• noting that “[m]ost published lower court decisions 9 that have reached [the] issue appear to have interpreted the ‘strictly proven standard to require 10 ‘clear and convincing evidence”
• noting that “[m]ost published lower court decisions 9 that have reached [the] issue appear to have interpreted the ‘strictly proven standard to require 10 ‘clear and convincing evidence”
• finding no need to decide which standard applies because even applying higher standard of proof, abandonment was shown
• finding no evidence to show contractual control, actual control, or control pursuant to sufficient grounds to trust in the quality control procedures of the licensee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).