ITC Ltd. v. Punchgini, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “trademark rights are acquired and maintained through use of a particular mark.... This is true even of marks that have been registered with the Patent and Trademark Office”
• holding that sales occurring three years after presumption period were “insufficient to support the necessary inference that, in the non-use period, [the owner] maintained an intent to resume use”
• holding that sales occurring three years after presumption period were “insufficient to support the necessary inference that, in the non-use period, [the owner] maintained an intent to resume use”
• noting that “courts have generally held that a trademark owner cannot rebut a presumption of abandonment merely by asserting a subjective intent to resume use of the mark at some later date”
• finding no right to protection for “well known marks” under Sections 44(b) and 44(h) of the Lanham Act
• granting summary judgment for the party asserting an abandonment claim because the nonmoving party failed to furnish evidence of its intent to resume use of a mark

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  Second Circuit· 2008-07-22· cited 193×
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  Second Circuit· 2010-10-21· cited 184×
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  Second Circuit· 2008-05-15· cited 152×
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  Second Circuit· 2011-07-11· cited 73×
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  Second Circuit· 2021-02-09· cited 72×
• Rockland Exposition, Inc. v. Alliance of Automotive Service Providers
  S.D. New York· 2012-09-11· cited 64×
• Patsy's Italian Restaurant, Inc. v. Banas
  Second Circuit· 2011-08-24· cited 62×
• New World Solutions, Inc. v. NameMedia Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2015-12-15· cited 61×
• Mora v. People of State of New York
  Second Circuit· 2008-04-24· cited 52×
• NML Capital v. Republic of Argentina
  Second Circuit· 2010-09-23· cited 50×
• Erich Specht v. Google Incorporated
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-04-04· cited 45×
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  S.D. New York· 2013-03-20· cited 35×
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  S.D. New York· 2008-07-14· cited 32×
• Phoenix of Broward, Inc. v. McDonald's Corp.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2007-06-22· cited 30×
• Gucci America, Inc. v. Frontline Processing Corp.
  S.D. New York· 2010-06-23· cited 29×

Cites

75 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-04· cited 15,585×
• Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 14,284×
• Chambers v. Time Warner, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2002-02-21· cited 4,118×
• Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-26· cited 1,571×
• Inwood Laboratories, Inc. v. Ives Laboratories, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-01· cited 1,327×
• Meiri v. Dacon
  Second Circuit· 1985-04-02· cited 1,024×
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Samara Brothers, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2000-03-29· cited 687×
• Kos Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Andrx Corporation Andrx Laboratories, Inc
  Third Circuit· 2004-05-24· cited 653×
• Badaracco v. Commissioner
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-17· cited 651×
• United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co.
  Supreme Court· 1918-12-09· cited 599×
• A.C. Aukerman Company v. R.L. Chaides Construction Co.
  Federal Circuit· 1992-05-19· cited 585×
• David Giordano v. City of New York, Howard Safir, Police Commissioner, New York City Police Department, Medical Board, Police Pension Fund, Article II
  Second Circuit· 2001-12-21· cited 578×
• Yurman Design, Inc. Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Paj, Inc., Doing Business as Prime Art & Jewel, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 2001-08-10· cited 345×
• Vanity Fair Mills, Inc. v. The T. Eaton Co. Limited and John David Eaton
  Second Circuit· 1956-06-01· cited 343×
• Pdk Labs, Inc., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee v. Mitchell K. Friedlander, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 1997-01-09· cited 305×
• Saratoga Vichy Spring Co., Inc. v. Orin Lehman, Commissioner of Parks and Recreation of the the State of New York and Waters of Saratoga Springs, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1980-06-05· cited 298×
• Marianna Distasio v. Perkin Elmer Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1998-08-27· cited 240×
• Genesee Brewing Company, Inc., D/B/A Highfalls Brewing Company v. Stroh Brewing Company, D/B/A Northern Plains Brewing Company
  Second Circuit· 1997-08-22· cited 220×
• Lou Dibella and Dibella Entertainment, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees v. Bernard Hopkins, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 2005-04-04· cited 211×
• Planetary Motion, Inc. v. Techsplosion, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2001-08-16· cited 209×

Other cases named ITC Ltd. v. Punchgini, Inc.

4 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• ITC Ltd. v. Punchgini, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 2007-12-13· cited 87×
• ITC Ltd. v. Punchgini, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2005-02-10· cited 14×
• ITC Ltd. v. Punchgini, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2008-02-26· cited 11×
• ITC Ltd. v. Punchgini, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 2007-10-18