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· 9/28/1961

Blisscraft of Hollywood v. United Plastics Company, Marmax Products Corp., and Morris Shapiro, Doing Business as Great Eastern Housewares Company

Citations

  • 294 F.2d 694
  • 131 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 55
  • 1961 U.S. App. LEXIS 3548

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the mark “Poly Pitcher” was inherently distinctive because it referred both to the product’s polyethylene material and to Molly Pitcher, a semi-mythological figure of the American Revolution
  • POLYPITCHER not merely descriptive of polyethylene pitchers inasmuch as it is an incongruous expression suggestive of MOLLY PITCHER
  • POLYPITCHER not merely descriptive of polyethylene pitchers inasmuch as it is an incongruous expression suggestive of MOLLY PITCHER

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Judges: Lumbard, Moore, Steel

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