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· 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

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

  • 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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