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· 9/4/2003

State Auto Property and Casualty Insurance Company v. Travelers Indemnity Company of America Farmington Casualty Company

Citations

  • 343 F.3d 249
  • 67 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1914
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 18243
  • 2003 WL 22070508

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 trademark plays an important role in advertising a company's products\
  • using word \NISSAN\ to promote * vehicles to public constituted \quintessential example of trademark functioning to advertise a company's products\
  • infringing use of Nissan’s trademark on competing website held “misappropriation” of an “advertising idea”
  • trademark that serves to promote a company’s products to the public is an advertising idea, and not merely a label or identifier
  • “the NISSAN trademark is an advertising idea and, as a consequence, the injuries alleged in the [underlying] Complaint fall within the [insurance policy’s] definition of an ‘advertising injur/ ”
  • NISSAN \quintessential example of trademark functioning to advertise a company's products\

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Judges: Wilkinson, Niemeyer, King

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