Legal Opinion
Bretford Manufacturing, Inc. v. Smith System Manufacturing Co.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 20, 2005No. 98 C 0287PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
GRADY, District Judge.
The lengthy proceedings in this court were concluded by our ruling in Bretford Manufacturing, Inc. v. Smith System Manufacturing, Co., 286 F.Supp.2d 969 (N.D.Ill.2003), where we granted the defendant Smith’s motion to reconsider our earlier holding.that it had been guilty of “reverse passing off’ in violation of section 43(a)(1)(A) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)(1)(A). We entered final judgment in favor of Smith, and the Court of Appeals affirmed, Bretford Mfg., Inc. v. Smith Sys. Mfg. Corp., 419 F.3d 576 (7th Cir.2005).
Smith has now…
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