Schwan's Ip, LLC Schwan's Consumer Brands North America, Inc. v. Kraft Pizza Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that use of the term “brick oven” by plaintiffs frozen pizza competitors supported district court’s finding that term was generic
• finding generic use of a term by a company’s competitors is indicative of public perception
• finding generic use of a term by a company's competitors is indicative of public perception
• discussing the relevance of newspaper articles using the phrase \brick oven\ to name a type of pizza rather than a specific brand
• stating that a descriptive mark is only protectible if it is \so associated with the product that it becomes a designation of the source rather than of a characteristic of the product\-thus, if it has acquired secondary meaning
• affirming grant of summary judgment on grounds that the term “Brick Oven” is generic

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).