Person's Co., Ltd. v. Catherine Christman, Personal Representative of the Estate of Larry Christman

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• holding that foreign use is not sufficient to establish priority rights even over a United States competitor who took mark in bad faith
• holding that foreign use is not sufficient to establish priority rights even over a United States competitor who took mark in bad faith
• rejecting argument that use of trademark on goods sold in Japan by Japanese company to a U.S. citizen could establish priority rights against person using mark first in the United States
• rejecting argument that use of trademark on goods sold in Japan by Japanese company to a U.S. citizen could establish priority rights against person using mark first in the United States
• rejecting argument that use of trademark on goods sold in Japan by Japanese company to a U.S. citizen could establish priority rights against per- son using mark first in the United States
• \Knowledge of a foreign use does not preclude good faith adoption and use in the United States.\

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