Hydro-Dynamics, Inc. v. George Putnam & Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that single bona fide shipment in commerce may support registration
• \Whether a trademark has been ‘adopted’ is a factual finding whose resolution may include elements of subjective intent\
• “The common law and the Lanham Act require that trademark ownership be accorded to the first bona fide user.”
• “[Trademark rights in the United States are acquired by adoption and use, not by registration.”
• The “decision as to priority is made in accordance with the preponderance of the evidence”
• The “decision as to priority is made in accordance with the preponderance of the evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).