Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Sears Financial Network, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• Defendant Sears Financial in direct competition with the financial services department of Sears, Roebuck, although latter also provides a wide range of other services and products
• “Sears, Roebuck and Co.” and “Sears Financial Network” similar, despite sharing only one word
• apparently equating the irreparable harm caused by trademark infringement with “the dilution of the distinctiveness of [plaintiff’s] trademark, the loss of control of its reputation[,] and the diminishment of its good will”
• addressing trademark infringement, unfair competition, and trademark dilution
• addressing trademark infringement, unfair competition, and trademark dilution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).