Torres v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a trademark licensor may be strictly liable as a seller if it “places” the products in the stream of commerce
• applying strict products liability to a trademark licensor who was also the parent company of the entities that “technically accomplished” the research, design, manufacture, distribution, and sale of the defective product
• noting Goodyear’s ability to control directly and indirectly the production of the allegedly defective tires
• finding Goodyear liable for a defective “Goodyear GB” tire where it was “designed to be a Goodyear tire, produced, packaged, advertised, and sold as a Goodyear tire, and warranted by Goodyear”
• “The underlying objective of the doctrine [of products liability] was to place the risk of loss on those in the chain of distribution of defective, unreasonably dangerous goods.”
• lessors of products and dealers in used goods may be subject to strict liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).