Thrifty Rent-A-Car System, Inc. v. Thrift Cars, Inc.

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• recognizing common law senior user but defining market as East Taunton, Massachusetts and fashioning appropriately narrow injunctive relief
• proof of prior use defense under the Lanham Act allows non-registrant junior user to raise common law defense with respect to area in which it used the contested mark before registration

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