· 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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