Mead Johnson & Company v. Abbott Laboratories

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the district court committed legal error “[b]y using [a] survey to define the meaning of [a] phrase ... and then insisting that verification meet .the standards thus established”
• drawing a distinction between misleading statements and statements which may be subject to misunderstanding: “Section 43(a)(1
• considering statement “according to ordinary usage” and explaining, “In English, ‘first’ is ordinal. It denotes rank in a series.”
• survey evidence is inappropriate when “it is all but impossible to call the [advertising] claim [at issue] misleading”
• “a product’s promotion must be true and non-misleading at the time of sale” under Section 43(a)(1) of the Lanham Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).