Armstrong Cork Company and Armstrong World Industries, Inc., Plaintiffs- Cross-Appellees v. World Carpets, Inc., Cross-Appellants

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• holding that wide use of mark “World” resulted in little likelihood of confusion
• finding that the “mere fact” that defendant and plaintiff shared one word in their corporate names – “world” -- did not, “of itself, make the name ‘substantially similar’ to [plaintiff’s] trademark.”
• “A mark must be viewed in its entirety____ It is the overall impression that counts.”
• wide use of mark “World” results in little likelihood of confusion
• wide use of mark \World\ results in little likelihood of confusion
• wide use of mark “World” results in little likelihood of confusion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).