Gasser Chair Company, Inc., and George Gasser v. Infanti Chair Manufacturing Corp., and Vittorio Infanti

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• holding that willful infringement is one factor which may indicate a shift in the equities even where underlying elements established
• holding that the of defendant’s trademark and product since 1969, but claimed trigger for delay begins when the plaintiff’s “right ripens into that the defendant had “only recently departed from the one entitled to protection”
• reversing a judgment of equitable estop-pel because the accused infringer “believed the patent was invalid” and “paid little attention to [the patentee’s] complaints”
• finding no reliance where defendant stated that “he relied on” the supposed silence but evidence also demonstrated that he ignored “charges of infringement because he believed the patent was invalid.”
• \[T]he evidence of record showed that [the alleged infringer] was indifferent to whether [the patentee] would sue because of his personal belief that the patent was invalid.\
• no reliance where “[defendant] ignored [patentee’s] charges of infringement because [defendant] believed the patent was invalid.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).