Alberto-Culver Company, and Cross-Appellee v. Andrea Dumon, Inc., and Cross-Appellant

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• holding that a description of a feminine hygiene spray as “the deodorant of the most personal kind” did not infringe on the copyright of another spray, which described itself as “the most personal sort of deodorant”
• finding that three paragraphs of text on a deodorant label are “descriptive and not copyrightable” because the “creativity reflected in 32 Id. at 25 (Lemmon Deposition at 91:10-23
• “The plaintiff could not complain about the use of the same words, as these are purely textual....”
• denying protection to the phrase “most personal sort of deodorant”

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