Amazing Spaces, Inc. v. Metro Mini Storage

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[t]he analysis with respect to [the plaintiff’s] claims under the Lanham Act will be dispositive of its corresponding claims under Texas Law”
• explaining that PTO registration constitutes prima facie evidence \that the registrant has the exclusive right to use the registered mark in commerce with respect to the specified goods or services\
• explaining that using the Abercrombie test to determine whether the subject five-pointed star was inherently distinctive would be a “futile endeavor”
• noting that instances of consumer confusion bear on the merits of trade dress claims, but “do not have relevance as to the secondary meaning” of the trade dress
• affirming grant of summary judgment where plaintiff failed to raise a genuine issue of fact on secondary meaning
• finding an absence of secondary meaning, as a matter of law, where the mark was used for ten years

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