Jeffrey Sorensen v. WD-40 Company

How courts have described this case

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

• listing \any evidence of actual confusion\ as one \especially important\ factor used to determine likelihood of confusion
• affirming the district court’s ruling on summary judgment that no reasonable jury could find a likelihood of confusion
• describing reverse confusion as likely claim where junior user has a famous mark
• different packaging for marks that had some similarities led to the \overall commercial impression\ being \quite distinct\
• “In [Quaker Oats], we cautioned against conflating these two elements of the fair use defense.”
• different pack- aging for marks that had some similarities led to the “overall commercial impression” being “quite distinct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).