General Business Services, Inc. v. Rouse

How courts have described this case

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• stating that registration was prima facie evidence of ownership, 18 Can. No. 92057088 but the registration was invalid because the registrant was not the owner of the mark
• granting trade secret protection where only some but not all of the names on a list were readily ascertainable to one familiar with the industry
• primary inquiry in determining ownership of trademark is “what did the public perceive to be the legal entity standing behind the mark?”
• “ownership” follows from “quintessential right of exclusiveness”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).