Star Industries, Inc. v. Bacardi & Company Limited, Bacardi U.S.A., and Anheuser-Busch, Inc.

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• concluding that this factor was neutral where “[e]ach party claim[ed] that its product [was] ‘premium’” without any additional evidence
• holding that because the parties’ products were “already in competitive proximity, there [wa]s really no gap to bridge, and th[at] factor [wa]s irrelevant to the Polaroid analysis ”
• holding that Polaroid factor seven was “evenly balanced” where the record was insufficient to find “either product is markedly superior in quality” even though “Georgi’s vodka was much cheaper than Bacardi’s rum”
• holding that Polaroid factor seven was “evenly balanced” where the record was insufficient to find “either product is markedly superior in quality” even though “Georgi’s vodka was much cheaper than Bacardi’s rum”
• holding that Polaroid factor seven was “at most evenly balanced” where the record was insufficient to find “either product is markedly superior in quality” even though “Georgi’s vodka was much cheaper than Bacardi’s rum”
• holding that Polaroid factor seven was “at most evenly balanced” where the record was insufficient to find “either product is markedly superior in quality” even though “Georgi’s vodka was much cheaper than Bacardi’s rum”

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