Blue Bell, Inc. v. Farah Manufacturing Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[s]ecret, undisclosed internal shipments are generally inadequate to support the denomination ‘use’ ”
• noting that a “single use in trade may sustain trademark rights if followed by continuous commercial utilization”
• awarding common law ownership in unregistered mark based on first “actual use” in trade
• “even a single use in trade may sustain trademark rights if followed by continuous commercial utilization.”
• “The exclusive right to a trademark belongs to one who first uses it in connection with specified goods.’’
• “even a single use in trade may sustain trademark rights if followed by continuous commercial utilization”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).