MCA, Inc. v. Tape Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[C]ourts have never broadened the rule [of determining commercial designation] so far as to pennit proof of commercial designation of terms other than the precise terms used in the statute.”
• although some witnesses were restricted in their testimony to one specific region, a consideration of the testimony as a whole shows that practically all of the United States was covered
• “The rule is * * * that he who relies upon proving commercial designation to bring a certain product within a statutory term, must take the term as it appears in the statute.”
• “The rule is ... that he who relies upon proving commercial designation to bring a certain product within a statutory term, must take the term as it appears in the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).