Iron Grip Barbell Company, Inc., and York Barbell Company, Inc. v. USA Sports, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Absent a showing of long-felt need or the failure of others, the mere passage of time without the claimed invention is not evidence of nonobviousness.”
• “There is no such evidence of a nexus here; hence the existence of licenses is of little significance.”
• “Not every competing product that arguably falls within the scope of a patent is evidence of copying. ... Rather, copying requires the replication of a specific product.”
• “[C]opying requires the replication of a specific product.”
• “[C]opying requires the replication of a specific product.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).