Sankey v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that plaintiff failed to show that defendants “intended to profit by confusing consumers ”
• granting summary judgment for defendants because plaintiff failed to offer sufficient evidence of likelihood of confusion
• finding no likelihood of confusion where “there was no relevant evidence of actual confusion before the court on summary judgment”
• “Newton must show that, in selecting his name, Appellees ‘intended to profit by confusing consumers. ’ ”
• “Mere possibility that a consumer may be misled by Appellees’ use of the name ‘Wood Newton’ is not enough to establish a cause of action for unfair competition.”
• “a transferee court in this circuit is bound only by our circuit’s precedent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).