Standard International Corporation, Assignee, by Merger of the Bon Ami Company v. American Sponge and Chamois Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] mark which is initially a weak one may, by reason of subsequent use and promotion, acquire such distinctiveness that it can function as a significant indication of a particular producer as source of the goods with which it is used.”
• “a mark which is initially a weak one may, by reason of subsequent use and promotion, acquire such distinctiveness that it can function as a significant indication of a particular producer as source of the goods with which it is used”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).