Burns v. City of Des Peres

How courts have described this case

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• deciding that a mark divorced from its stylistic attributes was weak
• noting that use of descriptive or weak portions of marks can even overcome the distinctiveness of an incontestably registered mark
• determining that PARENTS is a descriptive mark for a monthly magazine on child-rearing
• holding the otherwise descriptive mark PARENTS to be strong in its stylized form
• stating that, in an infringement case involving an incontestable mark, a defendant “may not succeed in a defense that declares the mark is entitled to no protection because it is descriptive”
• stating that, in an infringement case involving an incontestable mark, a defendant “may not succeed in a defense that declares the mark is entitled to no protection because it is descriptive”

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