Legal Opinion
General Electric Company and Carboloy, Inc. v. Robert Speicher and Speicher, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 12, 1989No. 88-1730PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by a disappointed plaintiff, General Electric, in a suit for trademark infringement. After a two-day bench trial Judge Sharp awarded General Electric an injunction, but no damages; instead he awarded damages of $1,100 to the defendant, Robert Speicher, on Speicher’s counterclaim for wrongful seizure. 676 F.Supp. 1421, motion to reconsider denied, 681 F.Supp. 1337 (N.D.Ind.1988). Actually, there is another plaintiff (the company to which General Electric sold the division that made the trademarked product), and another defendant (Speicher’s corporation),…
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