David B. Dale v. Henry P. Rosenfeld, Doing Business Under the Firm Name and Style of Henry P. Rosenfeld Co., Samson Wallach and Abraham S. Gechtman

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• finding SUDSY generic for ammonia products notwithstanding that \some of the so-called 'sudsy' [ammonia] products marketed by opposers were not in fact sudsy because they contained no detergent.\
• “Availability elsewhere of truthful information cannot excuse untruths or misleading omissions in the prospectus. Readiness and willingness to disclose are not equivalent to disclosure.”
• “To show that a common descriptive name has acquired a de facto secondary meaning, in the sense that some or even many people have come to associate it with a particular producer, is not in itself enough to show that it has become entitled to registration as a trademark.”
• “To show that a common descriptive name has acquired a de facto secondary meaning, in the sense that some or even many people have come to associate it with a particular producer, is not in itself enough to show that it has become entitled to registration as a trademark.”

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