Polo Fashions, Inc. v. Extra Special Products, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trademark owners are not bound by statements made to the USPTO in ex parte trademark prosecutions
• “Statements made during an ex parte prosecution before the [USPTO] seeking registration of a trademark do not circumscribe for all time the rights the registrant may acquire thereafter through extensive use.” (emphasis added)
• confusion by retail sales clerk is evidence of confusion of consumers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).