{"id":220,"date":"2019-08-30T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=220"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:18","slug":"mall-owners-liable-for-commercial-tenants-sales-of-counterfeit-sunglasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2019\/08\/30\/mall-owners-liable-for-commercial-tenants-sales-of-counterfeit-sunglasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mall owners liable for commercial tenant&#8217;s sales of counterfeit sunglasses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Eleventh Circuit has held a commercial landlord liable for its tenant&#8217;s sales of counterfeit sunglasses when it knew of those sales and failed to stop them.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/federal\/appellate-courts\/ca11\/18-10157\/18-10157-2019-08-07.pdf?ts=1565190030\" target=\"_blank\">Luxottica Group, S.p.A. v. Airport Mini Mall LLC,\u00a0<\/a>\u00a02019 U.S. App. LEXIS 23555\u00a0(11th Cir. 2019). The claim was for contributory trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. \u00a71114.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/intellectual-property\/\" rel=\"tag\">Intellectual Property<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/leaseholds\/\" rel=\"tag\">Leaseholds<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eleventh Circuit has held a commercial landlord liable for its tenant&#8217;s sales of counterfeit sunglasses when it knew of those sales and failed to stop them.\u00a0Luxottica Group, S.p.A. v. Airport Mini Mall LLC,\u00a0\u00a02019 U.S. App. LEXIS 23555\u00a0(11th Cir. 2019). The claim was for contributory trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. \u00a71114.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-leaseholds"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}