McNeilab Inc. v. American Home Products Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that plaintiffs must show “some indication of actual injury and causation” (emphasis added)
• analogizing false comparative advertising claims to trademark disputes with regard to the type of harm caused
• comparative advertising “necessarily diminishes [the competing product’s] value in the minds of the consumer”
• “A misleading comparison to a specific competing product necessarily diminishes that product’s value in the minds of the consumer.”
• “A misleading comparison to a specific competing product necessarily diminishes that product’s value in the minds of the consumer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).