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· 9/17/1992

Spraying Systems Company v. Delavan, Incorporated

Citations

  • 975 F.2d 387
  • 24 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1181
  • 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 22248
  • 1992 WL 226465

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that a leading survey design “created a bias in favor of identifying a single company” as the source of the products and therefore the survey results could not prove secondary meaning
  • affirming summary judgment based on finding that consumer survey of secondary meaning was too flawed to create a genuine issue of material fact
  • finding the suffix “JET” descriptive of a hose product based in part on fifty other registrations using “JET” to de- scribe similar high-velocity water stream products
  • finding the suffix “JET” descriptive of a hose product based in part on fifty other registrations using “JET” to de- scribe similar high-velocity water stream products
  • finding the suffix “JET” descriptive of a hose product based in part on fifty other registrations using “JET” to de- scribe similar high-velocity water stream products
  • finding the suffix “JET” descriptive of a hose product based in part on fifty other registrations using “JET” to de- scribe similar high-velocity water stream products

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Judges: Cudahy, Kanne, Eschbach

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