BellSouth Corp. v. White Directory Publishers, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that thirty years of third-party use of the “walking fingers” rendered the logo “an unprotectible mark”
• determining that thirty years of third-party use of the “walking fingers” rendered the logo “an unprotectible mark”
• “such conduct estops BellSouth from turning on its head over thirty years of history by now seeking trademark protection of the walking fingers logo”
• “such conduct estops BellSouth from turning on its head over thirty years of history by now seeking trademark protection of the walking fingers logo”
• “such conduct estops BellSouth from turning on its head over thirty years of history by now seeking trademark protection of the walking fingers logo”
• “such conduct estops BellSouth from turning on its head over thirty years of history by now seeking trademark protection of the walking fingers logo”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).