M. B. H. Enterprises, Inc. v. Woky, Inc.

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• display of call letters and frequency was evidence that defendant did not intend to use plaintiffs slogan as a trademark
• although words “I LOVE YOU” were identical to plaintiffs mark, defendant’s slogan was distinguishable by prominently displayed call letters and frequency
• owner of registered mark “ ‘may not appropriate to itself common English slang terms and thus prevent others from using such phrases in their descriptive sense’”
• defendant’s “I LOVE YOU” slogans attributed quality of civic involvement and words, by themselves, did not designate source of services and thus did not constitute trademark use
• defendant’s prominent display of its call letters and frequency in connection with “I LOVE YOU” slogans indicated defendant as source of advertisements and thus was non-trademark use
• owner of registered mark \’may not appropriate to itself common English slang terms and thus prevent others from using such phrases in their descriptive sense’\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).