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· 2/18/1988

In Re Chemical Dynamics, Inc.

Citations

  • 839 F.2d 1569
  • 5 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1828
  • 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 1979
  • 1988 WL 10948

How courts have described this case

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  • considering whether “a single unified design” that constitutes a “unitary mark” can be “mutilate[ed]’
  • 5 years’ use of composite mark does not speak to the issue of whether a component is viewed by itself as a mark
  • design of medicine dropper and droplet does not create separate commercial impression from the wording and watering can
  • 5 years’ use of composite mark does not speak to the issue of whether a component is viewed by itself as a mark
  • design of medicine dropper and droplet does not create separate commercial impression from the wording and watering can
  • the three elements of the background–the dropper, the droplet, and the watering can–are interrelated elements of a single unified design and cannot be registered separately

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Judges: Friedman, Smith, Mayer

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