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MILLER'S ALE HOUSE v. BOYNTON CAROLINA ALE HOUSE

No. 10-15140.

702 F.3d 1312 (2012)

MILLER'S ALE HOUSE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOYNTON CAROLINA ALE HOUSE, LLC, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 20, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey W. Gurland, Jr. , Duane Morris, LLP, Miami, FL, Joseph W. Bain , Jerold I. Schneider , Novak, Druce & Quigg, LLP, Wesley Alan Lauer , J. Rodman Steele, Jr. , Akerman Senterfitt, LLP, West Palm Beach, FL, Gregory P. Gulia , Vanessa C., Hew , Robert Terry Parker , Duane Morris, LLP, New York City, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Anthony J. Biller , David E. Bennett , Emily Michele Haas , Coats & Bennett, PLLC, Cary, NC, Hudson Carter Gill , Jeffrey L. Hochman , Johnson, Anselmo, Murdoch, Burke, Piper & Hochman, PA, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT and MARTIN, Circuit Judges, and DAWSON, District Judge.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

"[T]here is no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor."1 Intellectual property law walks a fine line in its quest to preserve such fair competition. On the one hand, it respects the policy of free copying and the free economic competition such copying encourages. See 1 J. Thomas McCarthy, McCarthy on Trademarks & Unfair Competition §...

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