· 7/7/1997
Wolfard Glassblowing Company v. Willy Vanbragt Mary Vanbragt, Individually, and Doing Business as Zodiac Expressions
Citations
- 118 F.3d 1320
- 43 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1378
- 97 Daily Journal DAR 8668
- 97 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5339
- 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 16487
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- referring to “exact copies” and “colorable imitations” of 19 the plaintiff’s trade dress
- injunction expressly prohibited the sale of “colorable imitations,” which the court found to include the change in shape of the accused lamp’s base
- “The question . . . is whether [the defendant’s] new lamp is a ‘colorable imitation’ of [the plaintiff’s protected] lamp.”
- district court need not conduct a new infringemént analysis where an injunction exists, and may afford less leniency to a party that has already infringed the mark
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Canby, Tashima, Silver
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