Blevins v. Sun Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that if the Japanese word “otokoyama” described a generic type of sake, it could not be trademarked in order to prevent other sake vendors from using the term to describe sake of that type
• explaining that a claimant’s rights or lack of rights “to a trademark in the United States cannot be established by” the rulings of a “foreign court”
• explaining that a claimant’s rights or lack of rights “to a trademark in the United States cannot be established by” the rulings of a “foreign court”
• explaining that a claimant’s rights or lack of rights “to a trademark in the United States cannot be established by” the rulings of a “foreign court”
• remanding to consider whether “otokoyama” is used as a generic term for “sake” in Japan although Japanese pictograms translated to “man” and “mountain”
• “This extension rests on the assumption that there are (or someday will be) customers in the United States who speak that foreign language.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).