Master Distributors, Inc., a New Hampshire Corporation v. Pako Corporation, a Delaware Corporation Pakor, Inc., a Minnesota Corporation

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• holding that there is no per se rule prohibiting protection of color alone
• “[T]he functionality doctrine ... provides that if a color is essential to the utility of a product or is the natural color of the product, then no party may acquire exclusive trademark rights in that feature or col- or.”
• “[Arguments must be briefed to be preserved”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).