Marks v. Polaroid Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• “a defendant alleging invalidity of a trademark for genericness must show that to the consuming public as a whole the word has lost all its trademark significance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Polaroid Corporation v. Polarad Electronics Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1961-02-28· cited 1,042×
• Genesee Brewing Company, Inc., D/B/A Highfalls Brewing Company v. Stroh Brewing Company, D/B/A Northern Plains Brewing Company
  Second Circuit· 1997-08-22· cited 220×
• Omega Importing Corp. v. Petri-Kine Camera Company, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1971-11-08· cited 161×
• E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Co. v. Yoshida International, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 1975-03-20· cited 111×
• King-Seeley Thermos Co. v. Aladdin Industries, Incorporated
  Second Circuit· 1963-07-11· cited 109×
• The Standard Oil Company, a Corporation and Sohio Petroleum Company, a Corporation v. Standard Oil Company, a Corporation
  Tenth Circuit· 1958-01-15· cited 94×
• Dresser Industries, Inc., a Corporation v. Heraeus Engelhard Vacuum, Inc., a Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1968-05-24· cited 61×
• Alvin M. Marks v. Polaroid Corporation
  First Circuit· 1956-09-26· cited 42×
• American Thermos Products Co. v. Aladdin Industries, Inc.
  D. Connecticut· 1962-06-26· cited 36×
• Trak Inc. v. BENNER SKI KG & Bavarian Ski Co.
  D. Massachusetts· 1979-09-05· cited 15×
• Maremont Corp. v. Air Lift Co.
  Customs and Patent Appeals· 1972-07-27· cited 14×
• Tidewater Patent Development Company, Incorporated v. K. M. Kitchen and Virginia M. Kitchen, Partners Trading as K. M. Kitchenbeauty Supply Company
  Fourth Circuit· 1967-02-14· cited 13×
• Tiffany & Co. v. Costco Wholesale Corp.
  S.D. New York· 2014-01-17· cited 13×
• La Maur, Inc. v. L. S. Donaldson Co.
  D. Minnesota· 1961-01-23· cited 5×
• Riggs Marketing Inc. v. Mitchell
  D. Nevada· 1997-09-24· cited 3×
• Plax Corp. v. Precision Extruders, Inc.
  D. New Jersey· 1956-01-20· cited 3×
• Polaroid Corp. v. Commerce International Co.
  S.D. New York· 1957-06-14· cited 2×
• Sunway Fruit Products, Inc. v. Productos Caseros, S.A.
  Customs and Patent Appeals· 1963-06-20
• Polaroid Corp. v. Polaraid, Inc.
  N.D. Illinois· 1962-06-12

Cites

32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co.
  Supreme Court· 1944-05-15· cited 1,010×
• Bayer Co. v. United Drug Co.
  S.D. New York· 1921-04-14· cited 168×
• Ross-Whitney Corp. v. Smith Kline & French Laboratories
  Ninth Circuit· 1953-10-20· cited 121×
• Smith v. Hall
  Supreme Court· 1937-04-26· cited 106×
• DuPont Cellophane Co. v. Waxed Products Co.
  Second Circuit· 1936-07-17· cited 98×
• Telechron, Inc. v. Telicon Corp.
  Third Circuit· 1952-09-09· cited 83×
• Western States MacH. Co. v. S. S. Hepworth Co.
  Second Circuit· 1945-01-16· cited 80×
• Albert Dickinson Co. v. Mellos Peanut Co. Of Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 1950-01-12· cited 62×
• Dwinell-Wright Co. v. National Fruit Product Co.
  First Circuit· 1944-02-02· cited 61×
• Mandel Brothers, Inc. v. Wallace
  Supreme Court· 1948-11-08· cited 59×
• Kemart Corp. v. Printing Arts Research Laboratories, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1953-01-26· cited 52×
• Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc.
  Second Circuit· 1936-12-14· cited 41×
• Pro-Phy-Lac-Tic Brush Co. v. Jordan Marsh Co.
  First Circuit· 1948-01-14· cited 28×
• Dean Rubber Mfg. Co. v. Killian
  Eighth Circuit· 1939-08-14· cited 24×
• Dennis v. Pitner
  Seventh Circuit· 1939-06-30· cited 23×
• United States v. Cold Metal Process Co.
  N.D. Ohio· 1945-08-11· cited 23×
• General Electric Co. v. Wabash Appliance Corp.
  Second Circuit· 1938-01-03· cited 21×
• Stuart Oxygen Co. v. Josephian
  Ninth Circuit· 1947-06-18· cited 20×
• General Motors Corporation v. Provus
  Seventh Circuit· 1938-12-15· cited 15×
• Bunte Bros. v. Standard Chocolates, Inc.
  D. Massachusetts· 1942-05-18· cited 11×