University of Pittsburgh, a Non Profit Corporation v. Champion Products Inc., a Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that silence may constitute acquiescence when the owner of a trade name has knowledge of another party’s use of its name and fails to object
• recognizing that “mere delay” or “laches without more” typically bars only monetary recovery unless the delay is so “outrageous . . . as to constitute a virtual abandonment” of a mark
• noting that laches gives “rise to affirmative rights in the defendant as a result of detrimental reliance”
• noting that, in the context of “mere delay” or “laches without more,” “the much more common situation [is one] in which the plaintiffs less egregious delay will bar its claim for an accounting for past infringement but not for prospective injunctive relief’
• finding no bar to injunctive relief in a case of silent acquiescence by trademark owner, because there was no unreasonable delay
• describing the “common situation” where a plaintiff’s delay “will bar its clam for an accounting for past infringement but not for prospective injunctive relief”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).