Swan v. Gillette

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant's proposed sale of futures contract tied to index of stocks compiled by plaintiff
• “The heart of a successful claim based upon . . . the Lanham Act . . . and common law trademark infringement is the showing of likelihood of confusion as to the source or sponsorship of defendant’s products”
• court not able to envision “any simple effective remedy for compensating [thousands of] traders” who might be injured if contracts closed or settled over a 23 month period between denial of preliminary injunction and entry of permanent injunction had to be invalidated
• trademark infringement under federal and New York law
• trademark infringement under federal and New York law
• same for common law trademark infringement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).