Reese Publishing Company, Inc. v. Hampton International Communications, Inc., David Berns, and Curtis Circulation Company

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that where “the mark is not registered,” the burden is on the proponent to “prove that its mark is a valid trademark”
• holding that “Video Buyer’s Guide” is generic
• affirming dismissal of trademark claims because “Video Buyer’s Guide” was generic
• the title, “Consumer Electronics Monthly” was a generic trademark because “consumer electronics” was the name of a trade
• “In any event, there was sufficient evidence in the record to support the district court’s conclusion that Reese’s mark was generic.”
• Evidence of secondary meaning “at most could have established ‘de facto secondary meaning,’ which cannot suffice to convert a generic term into a trademark”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).