Dominion Bankshares Corp. v. Devon Holding Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the “defendants use of the name is strongly suggestive of the intention of defendants to draw from that mark” where the record established that the defendants were aware of the plaintiff’s existence and of plaintiff’s use of the name and service mark”
• “The registration by defendants of the [trademark with the state] has no effect on the infringement rights of the plaintiff.”
• service mark “Dominion” is arbitrary mark because it does not tell customers the characteristics, functions, uses or qualities of banking services

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).