Sunbeam Products Inc v. The West Bend Co

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, for purposes of trade dress protection, “an arbitrary combination of functional features may be non-functional”
• recognizing that “descriptive marks are entitled to protection only if they have come to be uniquely associated with a particular source”
• stating that “the primary element of secondary meaning is a mental association in buyer[s’] minds between the alleged mark and a single source of the product”
• holding that trade dress protection is not foreclosed
• stating that \'trade dress' refers to the total image and overall appearance of a product\
• stating that “the primary element of secondary meaning is a mental association in buyer[s’] minds between the alleged mark and a single source of the product”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).