Starter Corporation v. Converse, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that use of marks was sufficiently \in commerce\ to sustain federal-question jurisdiction under Lanham Act
• deciding “whether, at the time the complaint was filed, ah actual ease or controversy existed”
• requiring that the party be “actively preparing to produce the article in question”
• noting that declaratory judgment actions involving trademarks are analogous to those involving patents
• declining to exercise jurisdiction over a declaratory action that anticipated defenses, such as one based on the statute of limitations
• asserting, in reviewing whether plaintiff had standing to bring declaratory judgment action, that the question was “whether, at the time the complaint was filed, an actual case or controversy existed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).