Hot Wax, Inc. v. Turtle Wax, Inc.

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• suggesting that a “serious attempt” to resolve a dispute outside of court would have made a delay in filing reasonable
• guarding against the adoption of any rule that would effectively eliminate laches as a defense to Lanham Act false advertising claims
• stating the requirements for laches are (1) unreasonable lack of diligence and (2) prejudice arising therefrom
• discussing “claims that may be literally true or ambiguous, but which implicitly convey a false impression, are misleading in context, or likely to deceive consumers.”
• upholding finding of prejudice as matter of law when defendant invested significant time and money in advertising and product development during a 10 to 20-year delay
• “Had Hot Wax successfully pressed its claims in a timely manner, Turtle Wax certainly could have invested its time and money in other areas or simply renamed its products.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).