Colt Defense LLC v. Bushmaster Firearms, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that as more competitors use the term, the support for a finding of genericness increases
• looking at competing 13 manufacturers, media publications discussing “carbines,” and “purchasers of carbines” as 14 informative of the views of relevant public where the registration was for rifles more generally
• “The purpose of a trademark is to identify and distinguish the goods of one party from those of another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).