Illinois High School Association v. Gte Vantage Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “The issue of likelihood of confusion does not arise, however, until it is determined that the plaintiff has a trademark that the law will protect”
• trademark holder must try to convince “dictionary editors, magazine and newspaper editors, journalists and columnists, judges, and other lexicographically influential persons” to avoid using the trademark in a generic way
• “[A] trademark is not nearly so secure an entitlement as a property right.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).