Time, Inc., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee v. Petersen Publishing Company L.L.C., Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant

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• observing that suggestive marks require “imagination, thought and perception to reach a conclusion as to the nature of goods”
• noting that the same test is applicable to claims brought under § 1114 and § 1125(a)
• “[Ijncontest-ability ... does not alter the breadth of infringement protection that a mark is accorded.”
• “[T]he law of trademark accords stronger protection to the stylized version of certain words used as trademarks than to those words themselves.”
• “Registration allows a merely descriptive mark to become incontestable on the basis of lack of secondary meaning”
• “The use of part or all of the mark by third parties weakens its overall strength.”

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