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· 3/9/1962

Roselux Chemical Co., Inc., Bonnie-Lan, Inc., and Proxite Products, Inc. v. Parsons Ammonia Company, Inc.

Citations

  • 299 F.2d 855
  • 49 C.C.P.A. 931

How courts have described this case

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

  • Holding that $3,000,000 in sales in one year was insufficient to establish secondary meaning
  • “Distinctiveness means that the primary meaning of the word ... is as a designation of source rather than of a characteristic of the product.”
  • immaterial that some of the so-called SUDSY ammonia products were not sudsy because they contained no detergent

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Judges: Worley, Rich, Martin, Smith, Kirkpatrick

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