Thomas & Betts Corporation and Thomas & Betts Holdings, Inc. v. Panduit Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Advertising that touts a product feature for its desirable qualities and not primarily as a way to distinguish the producer’s brand is not only not evidence that the feature has acquired secondary meaning, it directly undermines such a finding.”
• advertising “look for the oval head” for cable ties encourages consumers to identify the claimed trade dress with the particular producer
• “Copying is only evidence of secondary meaning if the defendant’s intent in copying is to confuse consumers and pass off his product as the plaintiff’s.”
• advertising “look for the oval head” for cable ties encourages consumers to identify the claimed trade dress with the particular producer
• advertising “look for the oval head” for cable ties encourages consumers to identify the claimed trade dress with the particular producer
• advertising “look for the oval head” for cable ties encourages consumers to identify the claimed trade dress with the particular producer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).