Legal Opinion
Acadia Technology, Inc. v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided May 11, 2005No. 04-1560CPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND OPINION
HODGES, Judge.
The United States Customs Service1 seized three shipments of plaintiffs’ cooler fans during the period October 1997 through February 1998. Cooler fans are used to protect the central processing units in computers. The seizures were based on complaints from Underwriters Laboratories that the fans contained counterfeit certification marks, a violation of domestic trademark and copyright law. The fans had a value of approximately $125,000.
A certification mark implies that goods have been tested and have met certain standards of safety in a given field. The Lanham…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Eastport Steamship Corporation v. The United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1967
- John G. Rocovich, Jr. v. The United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1991
- Del-Rio Drilling Programs Inc. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1998
- Bowman v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 1996
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Acadia Technology, Inc. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 2006
- Akins v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2008
- Allen v. DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFF. OF PHILADELPHIADistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2009
- The Modern Sportsman, LLC v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2019