United States v. United States Tel. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Commercial use of a mark overseas cannot form the basis for a holding of priority trademark use in the United States.” (quotations omitted)
• “Nevertheless, trademark ownership rights go to the first-to-use, not [the] first-to-register.” (quotation and citation omitted)
• “Fraud will not lie if it can be proven that the statement, though false, was made with a reasonable and honest belief that it was true.”
• trademark ownership rights go to the “first-to-use, not [the] first-to-register” (quoting 2 J. Thomas McCarthy, McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition, § 16:18 (4th ed. 2010)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).