“[I]f the domestic and foreign products are materially different, … sale of the foreign product in the United States under the domestic marks has a potential to mislead or confuse consumers about the nature or quality of the product they are buying; they will assume it to be the same as the normal domestic product and be disappointed.”
How later courts described this case
- “[I]f the domestic and foreign products are materially different, … sale of the foreign product in the United States under the domestic marks has a potential to mislead or confuse consumers about the nature or quality of the product they are buying; they will assume it to be the same as the normal domestic product and be disappointed.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
127 S.Ct. 1331 (2007)
Gabe KERI, petitioner,
v.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY, et al.
No. 06-852.
Supreme Court of United States.
February 20, 2007.
Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied.