Remington Products, Inc. v. North American Philips Corporation

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• assessing descriptiveness and genericness by looking at how a consumer would perceive the mark “in connection with the products”
• “travel care” is merely descriptive in light of, among other evidence, advertisements using the term descriptively
• “travel care” is merely descriptive in light of, among other evidence, advertisements using the term descriptively
• the mark must be considered in context, i.e., in connection with the goods
• testimony of competitor's president of generic use by competitor
• The term “travel care” was held to be at least descriptive based not upon a consideration of the meanings of the individual words “travel” and “care,” but rather upon the fact that the term “travel care” as a whole had been used in a descriptive or perhaps generic manner.

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