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.

• explaining that New York’s “time-honored misappropriation theory . . . prohibits a defendant from using a plaintiff[’]s property right or commercial advantage”
• explaining that New York law has “long recognized” a “misappropriation” theory underlying an unfair competition claim, under “[t]he principle that one may not misappropriate the results of the skill, expenditures and labors of a competitor.”
• answering the Second Circuit’s certified question with respect to the reach of a claim for unfair competition
• describing “proposition that for certain kinds of businesses (particularly cachet goods/services with highly mobile clienteles), goodwill can, and does, cross state and national boundary lines.”
• making no reference to trademark rights but describing rule that “for certain kinds of businesses ... goodwill can, and does, cross state and national boundary lines”
• describing “time honored misappropriation theory, which prohibits a defendant from using a plaintiffs property right or commercial advantage,” including “the goodwill attached to a foreign name”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

37 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Rockland Exposition, Inc. v. Alliance of Automotive Service Providers
  S.D. New York· 2012-09-11· cited 64×
• E.J. Brooks Co. v. Cambridge Sec. Seals
  New York Court of Appeals· 2018-05-03· cited 52×
• SCO Group, Inc. v. International Business MacHines Corp.
  Tenth Circuit· 2018-01-02· cited 45×
• Gameologist Group, LLC v. Scientific Games International, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2011-10-25· cited 41×
• Bytemark, Inc. v. Xerox Corp.
  S.D. Illinois· 2018-09-21· cited 33×
• Carson Optical, Inc. v. Prym Consumer USA, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2014-03-28· cited 30×
• Paleteria La Michoacana, Inc. v. Productos Lacteos Tocumbo S.A. De C.V.
  District of Columbia· 2016-05-27· cited 28×
• Carson Optical Inc. v. eBay Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2016-08-17· cited 28×
• Ace Arts, LLC v. Sony/ATV Music Publishing, LLC
  S.D. New York· 2014-09-26· cited 25×
• Small Business Bodyguard Inc. v. House of Moxie, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2017-01-31· cited 23×
• Sidney Frank Importing Co. v. Beam Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2014-02-14· cited 19×
• MasterCard International Inc. v. Nike, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2016-02-23· cited 17×
• Mercer Health & Benefits LLC v. DiGregorio
  S.D. Illinois· 2018-04-05· cited 17×
• Friedman v. Wahrsager
  E.D. New York· 2012-01-30· cited 17×
• Roche Diagnostics GmbH v. Enzo Biochem, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2013-12-06· cited 15×
• Can't Live Without it, LLC v. ETS Express, Inc.
  S.D. Illinois· 2018-01-15· cited 14×
• ITC Ltd. v. Punchgini, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2008-02-26· cited 11×
• Kim v. Francis
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2020-06-04· cited 9×
• Johnson & Johnson v. the American Nat. Red Cross
  S.D. New York· 2008-05-14· cited 6×
• Photonics Indus. Intl., Inc. v. Xiaojie Zhao
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2020-07-29· cited 6×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Elgin National Watch Co. v. Illinois Watch Case Co.
  Supreme Court· 1901-01-07· cited 298×
• Allied Maintenance Corp. v. Allied Mechanical Trades, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1977-10-18· cited 208×
• National Basketball Ass'n v. Motorola, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1997-01-30· cited 152×
• Electrolux Corp. v. Val-Worth, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1959-07-08· cited 74×
• Shaw v. Time-Life Records
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-12-04· cited 68×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-12-15· cited 46×
• Maison Prunier v. Prunier's Restaurant & Cafe, Inc.
  New York Supreme Court· 1936-05-13· cited 40×
• Vaudable v. Montmartre, Inc.
  New York Supreme Court· 1959-10-22· cited 39×
• Remco Industries, Inc. v. Toyomenka, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1968-04-26· cited 26×
• Cornell University v. Messing Bakeries, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1955-07-08· cited 17×
• Cornell University v. Messing Bakeries, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1955-03-09· cited 17×
• ITC Ltd. v. Punchgini, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2005-02-10· cited 14×