The Institut National Des Appellations D'Origine v. Vintners International Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[T]hird party registrations … may show that a particular term has descriptive significance 8 Serial No. 85497617 as applied to certain goods or services.”
• “[T]hird party registrations show the sense in which the word is used in ordinary parlance and may show that a particular term has descriptive significance as applied to certain goods or services.”
• \Such third party registrations show the sense in which the word is used in ordinary parlance and may show that a particular term has descriptive significance as applied to certain goods or services.\
• “Support for this ‘generic’ determination is found in . . . BATF regulations.”
• “We deal here only with the issue of registrability and what may be registered in the PTO. It is not our concern or that of the PTO what [the applicant] must do to comply with the BATF labelling requirements.”
• “We deal here only with the issue of registrability and what may be registered in the PTO. It is not our concern or that of the PTO what [applicant] must do to comply with the BATF [now TTB] labelling requirements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).