In Re the Boston Beer Company Limited Partnership

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• holding that THE BEST BEER IN AMERICA “is a common phrase used descriptively by others before and concurrently with [the applicant]’s use, and is nothing more than a claim of superiority” that is incapable of registration as a trademark
• holding that THE BEST BEER IN AMERICA “is a common phrase used descriptively by others before and concurrently with [the applicant]’s use, and is nothing more than a claim of superiority” that is incapable of registration as a trademark
• holding that THE BEST BEER IN AMERICA “is a common phrase used descriptively by others before and concurrently with [the applicant]’s use, and is nothing more than a claim of superiority” that is incapable of registration as a trademark
• holding that THE BEST BEER IN AMERICA “is a common phrase used descriptively by others before and concurrently with [the applicant]’s use, and is nothing more than a claim of superiority” that is incapable of registration as a trademark
• “[C]onsidering the highly descriptive nature of the proposed mark, [Applicant] has not met its burden to show that the proposed mark has acquired secondary meaning.”
• “[C]onsidering the highly descriptive nature of the proposed mark, [Applicant] has not met its burden to show that the proposed mark has acquired secondary meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).