Efs Marketing, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Russ Berrie & Company, Inc., and Russell Berrie, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees

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• trade dress that merely “refers to the genus of which the particular product is a species” is not inherently distinctive
• design of dolls similar to many other designs on the market did not serve as designator of source and therefore was not pro-tectable
• “[C]onsumers do not associate the design of a product with a particular manufacturer as readily as they do a trademark or a product-packaging trade dress.”
• “[C]onsumers do not associate the design of a product with a particular manufacturer as readily as they do a trademark or product packaging trade dress.”
• “[C]onsumers do not associate the design of a product with a particular manufacturer as readily as they do a trademark or a product-packaging trade dress.”

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