Polo Fashions, Inc. v. Branded Apparel Merchandising, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding a corporate officer personally liable for a corporation’s direct trademark infringement
• officer, director and 25% shareholder who was responsible for corporate defendant’s sale of infringing product held individually liable as the “conscious, moving force behind the sales that infringed [plaintiffs] trademark and common law rights.”
• “[Under Massachusetts law, the] essential element of a claim of unfair competition is thus the same as that for the infringement or false designation of origin claim: the plaintiff must prove the likelihood of consumer confusion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).