Ralston Purina Company v. Thomas J. Lipton, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[Consumers often buy goods without knowing the personal identity or actual name of the [producer].”
• \[C]onsumers often buy goods without knowing the personal identity or actual name of the [producer].\
• “In a market [as] new and unsettled [as plaintiffs], it is doubtful that the name of any product could have acquired secondary meaning in [less than one year].”
• “The term in question must have been ‘used in such a manner, over such a period of time, and to such an extent that the purchasing public associates’ it with the goods of a particular source”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).