· 12/19/1980
Metric & Multistandard Components Corporation v. Metric's, Inc., Metric & Multistandard Components Corporation v. Metric's, Inc.
Citations
- 635 F.2d 710
- 209 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 97
- 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 11251
How courts have described this case
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- noting that the defendant’s use of the “significant word” in the plaintiffs tradename tended to cause purchasers to believe the products were being purchased from the plaintiff
- claim for unfair competition where defendant’s catalogues “were nearly exact copies of [plaintiffs] sales materials”
- secondary meaning found where plaintiff used nonfunctional portions of its catalogues for approximately ten years before defendant copied them
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Judges: Lay, Heaney, Porter
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