Prufrock Ltd., Inc. v. Dan Lasater Allan Roberts Garland Streett Dixie Management, Inc., Individually & D/B/A Spring House Restaurant

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• finding trade dress including an exposed kitchen area, a large open dining area, and various decorative items, which lent a “country feel” to the restaurants, was functional
• “A franchisor does not have a business interest capable of protection in the mere method and style of doing business.”
• “Functionality is often a matter of degree, rather than a binary yes-or-no matter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).