Cbs Inc. v. George Clifford Morrow

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he verbal portion of the mark is the one most likely to indicate the origin of the goods to which it is affixed.”
• “[T]he verbal portion of the mark is the one most likely to indicate the origin of the goods to which it is affixed.”
• “[M]inor design features do not neces- sarily obviate likelihood of confusion arising from consider- ation of the marks in their entireties.”
• “This is particularly true when a mark appears in textual material, such as catalog descriptions, in which it is often impossible or impractical to include the design feature of the mark” (footnote omitted)
• “[I]n a com- posite mark comprising a design and words, the verbal portion of the mark is the one most likely to indicate the origin of the goods to which it is affixed.”
• applying this principle in the likelihood of confusion context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).