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6 Cited authorities
Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
434 U.S. 1025 (1978) Cited 236 timesRejecting admissibility of these same OSHA regulations offered for the same purpose of putting the duty to safeguard multi-purpose presses on the employer
Miller Brewing Co. v. G. Heileman Brewing Co.
561 F.2d 75 (7th Cir. 1977) Cited 157 times 1 Legal AnalysesHolding that "light" and "lite" are generic adjectives for beer and opining that "[o]therwise a manufacturer could remove a common descriptive word from the public domain by investing his goods with an additional quality, thus gaining the exclusive right to call his wine `rose,' his whisky `blended,' or his bread `white'"
Yamaha Intern. Corp. v. Hoshino Gakki Co.
840 F.2d 1572 (Fed. Cir. 1988) Cited 46 times 2 Legal AnalysesFinding secondary meaning for shape of guitar head always appearing in advertising and promotional literature
In re Bose Corp.
772 F.2d 866 (Fed. Cir. 1985) Cited 31 times 2 Legal AnalysesHolding pentagonal shape of loudspeaker functional where applicant's promotional materials lauded shape as functional part of sound system
Roselux Chemical Co. v. Parsons Ammonia Co.
299 F.2d 855 (C.C.P.A. 1962) Cited 32 timesHolding that $3,000,000 in sales in one year was insufficient to establish secondary meaning
Application of Belgrade Shoe Company
411 F.2d 1352 (C.C.P.A. 1969) Cited 8 timesHolding that there was a likelihood of confusion between COL'EEJUNS' and COLLEGIENNE, which were pronounced similarly