Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Hybrid Conversions, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding $1,000,000 in statutory damages for willful infringement was justified where counterfeit goods at issue posed safety hazard to public
• “A statutory maximum damages award should be reserved for trademark infringement that is particularly egregious, involves large amounts of counterfeit goods, or is otherwise exceptional.”
• “[A] significant statutory damages award is warranted” where defendants marketed and sold counterfeit items that posed a risk to public safety
• “[I]mportantly, defendants marketed and sold counterfeit items that posed a risk to public safety. . . . Therefore, the court finds that a large statutory damages amount is appropriate.”
• “Not only does the risk inherent in such goods pose an even greater threat to the goodwill associated with the trademark registrant’s mark, it also threatens the public with physical harm. Therefore, the court finds that a large statutory damages amount is appropriate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).