Sara Lee Corp. v. Bags of New York, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that infringer's repeated efforts to mislead the court about ceasing infringement supported a high damages award
• finding that the defendants' persistence in infringing despite court orders meant they were \difficult to deter\
• noting that “the sort of misconduct that supports an attorney fees award includes not only willful infringement, but also willful defiance and protraction of judicial processes attempting to stop the illegalities”
• affirming “precedents instructing that awards increase to deter and punish a willful continuous course of infringements and defiance of the judicial process”
• awarding $750,000 and noting that awards increase to deter and punish a willful continuous course of infringements and defiance to the judicial process
• characterizing § 1117(a) of the Lanham Act, which provides for disgorgement of profits, as providing “strictly compensatory relief”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).