Scott Fetzer Co. v. House of Vacuums Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[t]he likelihood of confusion standard also governs [the plaintiff’s] claims for trademark infringement and unfair competition under Texas law.”
• holding that independent dealers “may use a mark to advertise truthfully that they sell or repair certain branded products so long as the advertisement does not suggest affiliation or endorsement by the mark holder”
• holding that to prove unfair competition under federal law, a plaintiff must show the alleged infringing mark is likely to cause confusion among consumers as to the source, affiliation, or sponsorship of the copyrighted item
• stating that in a trademark infringement action where a survey is used, “the appropriate universe should include a fair sampling of those purchasers most likely to partake of the alleged infringer’s goods or services”
• dismissing a survey in which 57% of participants said they assumed an affiliation or association between the two marks
• critiquing a Squirt survey. for pushing “survey participants to search for any connection, no matter how attenuated ... instead of permitting participants to make their own associations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).