Daddy's Junky Music Stores, Inc. v. Big Daddy's Family Music Center

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• concluding that the district court should reconsider the significance of a single incident of actual confusion on remand
• holding that third-party trademarks that used the phrase “Daddy’s” raised a genuine issue of material fact about whether they “weaken[ed] plaintiff’s mark for the specific purpose of retail sales of musical instruments”
• noting that the absence of evidence of actual confusion is generally entitled to little weight because of the difficulty in obtaining such evidence
• explaining that a finding of no intentional copying “is largely irrelevant in determining if consumers likely will be confused as to source”
• noting that public acceptance of a mark “can occur when the mark is unique, when it has received intensive advertisement, or both”
• explaining that the significance of purchaser care “often will depend upon its relationship with the other seven factors”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).