Schwinn Bicycle Company v. Ross Bicycles, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “a product’s trade dress is the overall image used to present it to its purchasers,” whereas a “trademark on the other hand is thought of as something more specific, such as a logo”
• \the district court has discretion to determine the evidentiary weight to be given any single factor.\
• “the district court has discretion to determine the evidentiary weight to be given any single factor.”
• “A feature is functional if it is one that is costly to design around or do without, rather than one that is costly to have.”
• “A preliminary injunction is a very serious remedy, ‘never to be indulged in except in a case clearly demanding it.’”
• “The fact that Ross failed to introduce cost studies may very well be determinative of whether Ross has sustained its burden on the question of functionality... .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).