Stork Restaurant, Inc. v. Sahati

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “The Stork Club” was an arbitrary trade name because a stork was “in no way descriptive of the appellant’s night club”
• noting greater degree of protection given to fanciful marks than to names in common use
• “A trade name is... no less effective than a trade-mark as a means of identification.”
• “[T]he use of the advertising or trade name or distinguishing mark of another, is in its Mature, fraudulent and will be enjoined.” (citation omitted)
• use of the name “Stork Club” by a tavern and the copying of the New Xork Club’s distinctive insignia of a stork in a top hat
• property right in trade name more easily found when part of corporate name

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).