Community Thrift & Loan v. Suchy

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the sale of a product “in a busy grocery store[] to hurried shoppers” must be considered in evaluating trade dress similarity
• stating that “a court must evaluate the weight to be accorded the individual factors and then make its ultimate decision”
• noting that “intent” means the defendant’s intent to confuse a potential buyer about the identity of a product’s manufacturer
• explaining that a finder of fact is afforded “great latitude in determining the appropriate weight to accord to particular evidence”
• explaining that “the presence of dissimilar word[-]marks lessens the possibility of a finding of similarity of design”
• noting that a post-split Fifth Circuit decision was \entitled to great weight because it [was] based on cases of the former Fifth Circuit that are binding precedent in this circuit\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).