Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority v. U.S. Department of the Interior

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that lack of dictionary definitions is indicia that the primary significance of a mark is as a surname
• when assessing whether the public will view a mark primarily as a surname, the “mark sought to be registered must be considered in its entirety”
• in reversing, explaining that evidence did not establish that “technology” was generic or merely descriptive of the identified goods
• public unlikely to view “Hutchinson Technology” as a whole to be surname
• a mark sought to be registered must be considered in its entirety

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).