· 10/4/2001
Bliss Salon Day Spa v. Bliss World LLC
Citations
- 268 F.3d 494
- 60 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1443
- 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 21452
- 2001 WL 1169929
How courts have described this case
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- finding that “BLISS marks are a glut on the market in hair styling and beauty care[,]” and therefore, “[t]hey are not distinctive, so the word does not belong in the ‘suggestive’ cubbyhole.”
- suggestive, arbitrary, and fanciful marks are collectively “distinctive in the sense that secondary meaning is likely to develop, as a result of which any duplicate use of the name is likely to breed confusion about the product’s source.”
- discussing its holding in Plati num
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Judges: Bauer, Easterbrook, Manion
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