Wynn Oil Company, Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. American Way Service Corporation, and Thomas A. Warmus, Defendants-Appellants/cross-Appellees

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• holding the same and upholding finding that absence of actual confusion deserved little weight
• explaining that actual confusion is irrelevant to an award based on the defendant’s profits
• collecting cases, and finding district court abused its discretion by not awarding damages for lost profits even when the district court had found the figure Plaintiffs provided was “uncertain”
• finding by district court that defendant intentionally copied was not clearly erroneous, despite testimony that defendant had not known of plaintiffs mark, when defendant had “intimate knowledge” of the industry and plaintiff had advertised its mark widely and had used it for many years
• “In general, the less care that a purchaser is likely to take in comparing products, the greater the likelihood of confusion.”
• \[L]ikelihood of confusion is the essence of an unfair competition claim [in] that the same factors are considered under section 1125(a) as are considered under section 1114.\

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