Beer Nuts, Inc. v. Clover Club Foods Company

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• explaining that a lack of actual confusion evidence is more understandable when the products and services involved are inexpensive because purchasers are less likely to inform the trademark owner when confusion arises over such products and services
• explaining that a lack of actual confusion evidence is more understandable when the products and services involved are inexpensive because purchasers are less likely to inform the trademark owner when confusion arises over such products and services
• involving two directly competing companies marketing identical goods, sweetened salted peanuts, in the same manner
• involving two directly competing companies marketing identical goods, sweetened salted peanuts, in the same manner
• requiring proof of likelihood of confusion in action by holder of incontestable mark
• noting the mere adoption of a similar mark can give rise to an inference of intent, where the adopting party knows of the prior mark’s existence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).