MGM-Pathe Communications Co. v. Pink Panther Patrol

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendants were subject to the trademark laws despite being engaged in political speech
• finding that there is “no legal support” for the defendant’s position that because it is engaged in political speech it is less subject to the trademark laws
• roughly six month delay in seeking a preliminary injunction excused because plaintiffs were “caught in a bind” with regard to whether to file suit
• “[M]embers of the public could easily draw the inference that the [plaintiff] has loaned its name to the defendants' cause[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).