Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Patton

How courts have described this case

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

• granting plaintiff jurisdictional discovery to determine if a domestic company committed a tortious act \while acting as the agent\ of the foreign defendant
• complaint adequately pled bad faith where plaintiffs alleged that defendants knowingly used plaintiffs’ trade dress to sell knock-off jewelry
• “I agree that an application is not sufficient to bring an infringement action[.]”
• “Similarities between the two works are probative [of copying] only if the similarities would not be expected to arise if the works had been created independently.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Access means that an alleged infringer had a ‘reasonable possibility’ — not simply a ‘bare possibility’ — of hearing [or seeing] the prior work.” (alteration in original) (internal citation and quotation marks omitted)
• ‘While jurisdictional discovery is ongoing with respect to the Foreign Defendants, the Court can consider the motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim brought by the domestic defendants — Oriental N.Y. and N.K. Ni-gam.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).