Pitcher v. Livingston

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that expansion by a “first user” will constitute infringement upon a later user of a mark if expansion would result in “likelihood of confusion in derogation of established rights of the intervening user”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

35 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Cullum v. Branch of the Bank of Alabama
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1842-06-15· cited 67×
• Powell v. Monson & Brimfield Manuf'g Co.
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts· 1824-05-15· cited 58×
• Hertzog v. Hertzog's Administrator
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1859-07-01· cited 35×
• RXD Media, LLC v. IP Application Development LLC
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-01-21· cited 31×
• Peters v. McKeon
  New York Supreme Court· 1847-05-15· cited 26×
• Curtis v. Brannon
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1897-02-06· cited 18×
• Tide Water Canal Co. v. Archer
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1839-05-15· cited 14×
• Chapel v. Bull
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1821-09-15· cited 13×
• North v. Brittain
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1927-03-26· cited 9×
• Malaun's Adm'r v. Ammon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1854-07-01· cited 9×
• Trimble v. Trimble
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1850-05-30· cited 8×
• Wood v. Bibbins
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1877-11-15· cited 8×
• Fletcher v. Button
  New York Supreme Court· 1849-07-03· cited 7×
• Cox's Administrators v. Henry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1858-07-01· cited 7×
• Carvill v. Jacks
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1884-11-15· cited 6×
• Ela v. Card
  Superior Court of New Hampshire· 1820-02-15· cited 5×
• State ex rel. Cone v. John
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1831-12-15· cited 3×
• Allen v. Blunt
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts· 1846-10-15· cited 3×
• Kingsbury v. Smith
  Superior Court of New Hampshire· 1842-07-15· cited 3×
• Willson v. Willson
  Superior Court of New Hampshire· 1852-07-15· cited 3×