Union Starch & Refining Co. v. National Labor Relations Board

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• finding that construing the whereas clause to bind a party to a prior version of the contract would create an obligation absent from the current contract
• stating that descriptive marks acquire secondary mean ing when “the name and the business have become synonymous in the mind of the public, submerging the primary meaning of the term in favor of its meaning as a word identifying that business”
• case pending three months before hearing, and hearing was interrupted and adjourned thirteen days after court announced consolidation in middle of proceedings
• a personal name is a descriptive term that cannot, absent 15 acquisition of a secondary meaning, be trademarked
• “Fanciful terms are those that are ‘coined,’ having no independent meaning.,. [T]erms that are ..'. fanciful may be registered as trademarks even if they have not acquired secondary meaning.”
• 13 day notice sufficient for presentation of additional evidence following hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).