Legal Opinion
Gordon & Breach Science Publishers S.A. v. American Institute of Physics
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 15, 1994No. 93 Civ. 6656 (LBS)PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SAND, District Judge.
This action, a dispute between publishers of scientific journals, raises an issue of first impression: whether a non-profit publisher may be sued for false advertising under the Lanham Act for publishing comparative surveys of scientific journals which, through the employment of a misleading rating system, rate its own publications as superior.
Plaintiffs Gordon and Breach Science Publishers S.A., STBS, Ltd., and Harwood Academic Publishers GMBH (collectively, “Gordon and Breach,” or “G & B”) are part of an international group of publishers which publish and…
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