John R. Thompson Co., Doing Business as and Through Its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries Holloway House, Inc. v. Mrs. Lee Holloway, Sr.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting neither party advertised nationally and one party advertised only in Dallas / Fort Worth while the other never advertised within Texas
• noting neither party advertised nationally and one party advertised only in Dallas/Fort Worth while the other never advertised within Texas
• considering Dawn Donut as solely rebutting any other factor in whether confusion was likely
• “a man has no absolute right to use his own name, even honestly, as the name of his merchandise or his business”
• \A registrant[ ] ... has no presently (sic) enforcible rights in an area to which there is no presently provable probability of such expansion of the registrant's services or reputation as will create a likelihood of confusion[ ]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).