Padgett v. Sexton

How courts have described this case

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• directing district courts to consider the nominative use factors “in addition to discussing each of the Polaroid factors”
• holding, inter alia, that “[t]wo of the 27 most well-established examples of infringement of a certification mark are: the use of the mark in a resume of a professional who is in fact not certified by the organization that is 28 1 judicial notice is GRANTED; and (2
• “As a general proposition, pretrial discovery must take place in the public unless compelling reasons exist for denying public access to the proceedings.”
• “In spite of the differences between certification marks and other types of marks, the Lanham Act provides that certification marks are generally entitled to the same protection from infringement as are trademarks.”
• “consumer confusion is plainly not limited to source confusion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).