Bace v. Tai May Realty, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding Trademark Board’s refusal to register the terms CORN THINS and RICE THINS because they are “highly descriptive’
• “Terms that are suggestive, arbitrary, or fanciful are ‘in- herently distinctive’ and therefore registrable.” (citation omitted)
• “[W]hile evidence of substantially exclusive and continuous use may be sufficient to prove a prima facie case of acquired distinctiveness, that is not always the case.”
• “The TTAB is enti- tled to weigh the evidence.”
• CORN THINS and RICE THINS are highly descriptive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).