Ramada Inns, Inc. v. Gadsden Motel Company, a Partnership Conrad O. Moss Thomas H. Heatherly and John T. Murray

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• holding that plaintiffs need only show proximate cause to obtain damages for trademark infringement
• affirming damage award that compensated for Ramada Inns' lost reputation while hold-over franchisee was operating hotel poorly
• affirming damage award that compensated for Ramada Inns’ lost reputation while hold-over franchisee was operating hotel poorly
• in trademark infringement cases, district court possesses “considerable discretion” in setting damages, “even when they are not susceptible to precise calculations.”
• “Royalties normally received for the use of a mark are the proper measure of damages for misuse of those marks.”
• “The wrongdoer may not complain of inexactness where his actions preclude precise computation of the extent of the injury.”

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