National Lighting Co. v. Bridge Metal Industries, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the court could not “be expected to distill from a set of images those elements that are common to a line of products and both distinctive and non-functional.”
• holding that the court could not “be expected to distill from a set of images those elements that are common to a line of products and both distinctive and non-functional.”
• granting motion to dismiss where allegations did not allege the statement was false and there was no indication that consumers would be misled
• dismissing trade dress claim for failure to state with any degree of specificity, apart from “a laundry list of the elements that constitute a lighting fixture’s design,” what plaintiff was endeavoring to protect and how it was distinctive
• dismissing reverse passing off claim that “flies in the face of ... Dastar”
• “[C]ourts cannot be expected to distill from a set of images those elements that are common to a line of products and both distinctive and non-functional.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).