Rose v. Harriett Cotton Mills

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that if defendant actually misled the public about the availability of plaintiffs servicing and warranties, plaintiff “may be liable in contract or tort, but not in trademark”
• wholly owned subsidiary of foreign manufacturer cannot invoke Lanham Act to prevent third party from importing parent company’s product
• NEC Electronics “imports ninety percent of the NEC chips it sells from the parent company”
• in 1983, NEC assigned its United States rights to the trademark “NEC” to NEC Electronics
• NEC’s directors constitute a majority of NEC Electronics’ board of directors
• parent and subsidiary are part of a $2 billion-a-year corporate network

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).