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· 9/16/2009

Art Attacks Ink, LLC v. MGA Entertainment Inc.

Citations

  • 581 F.3d 1138
  • 92 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1026
  • 74 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 887
  • 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 20757
  • 2009 WL 2950659

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the sale of 2,000 t-shirts per year was not sufficient to show wide dissemination
  • holding that the sale of 2000 t-shirts did not constitute wide dissemination
  • holding that the sale of 2,000 t-shirts did not constitute wide dissemination
  • holding evidence that the plaintiff sold 2,000 t-shirts per year and displayed its design at county fairs and on the internet was insufficient to show widespread dissemination
  • indicating that “direct survey evidence of purchaser perception is not 10 required”
  • declining to 20 address remaining two elements after concluding “that a reasonable jury could not find that Art Attack’s trade dress has acquired secondary meaning”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Pregerson, Nelson, Thompson

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