Legal Opinion
Lexmark Int'l, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 25, 2014No. 12-873PublishedCited by 2,683 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
*120 This case requires us to decide whether respondent, Static Control Components, Inc., may sue petitioner, Lexmark International, Inc., for false advertising under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (a).
I. Background
Lexmark manufactures and sells laser printers. It also sells toner cartridges for those printers (toner being the *121 powdery ink that laser printers use to create images on paper). Lexmark designs its printers to work only with its own style of cartridges, and it therefore dominates the market for cartridges compatible with its printers. That market, however, is not devoid of…
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