Durango Herald, Inc. v. Riddle

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that telephone directory had acquired “strong secondary meaning within the relevant market of general consumers and advertisers in the communities served by” plaintiff
• “The standard for permanent injunction is essentially the same as that for preliminary injunction with the exception that a plaintiff must demonstrate actual success on the merits.”
• “The court should not undertake a side-by-side comparison, but should recognize that a consumer ‘necessarily depends upon the mental picture of that which symbolizes origin and ownership of the thing desired.’ ”
• bright orange hunting clothes are functional and appropriate for hunter safety
• “Protection of one of the several color combinations available to Riddle, and particularly the red cover to which significant good will attaches, does not hinder competition or remove a valuable qualitative feature from Riddle’s product.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).