Ces Publishing Corp., Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. St. Regis Publications, Inc. Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant

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• motion to dismiss appropriate as generic name could not \be rescued as trademark[ ] by\ proof of secondary meaning
• CONSUMER ELECTRONICS MONTHLY is generic name of class of magazines describing electronic equipment for consumers
• “To allow trademark protection for generic terms, i.e. names which describe the genus of goods being sold, even when these have become identified with a first user, would grant the owner of the mark a monopoly, since a competitor could not describe his goods as what they are.”

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