Autozone, Inc. And Speedbar, Inc. v. Tandy Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the weaker term “zone” did not sap the strength of the “AutoZone” mark where there was no evidence of pervasive use of the composite mark as a whole.
• explaining that the Nos. 21-5723/22-5361 Bliss Collection, LLC v. Latham Cos., LLC Page 23 similarity of the marks is given “considerable weight”
• noting that the Sixth Circuit has “interchangeably analyzed the Tennessee and federal antidilution statutes”
• “The AUTOZONE and POWERZONE marks have some visual and linguistic similarities, but ultimately their differences outnumber their similarities such that the likelihood of confusion is small.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).