Wallace D. REA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. J. William MIDDENDORF, II, Secretary of the Navy, Defendant-Appellee

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• observing that “a term may shift from one category to another in light of differences in usage through time [and] because a term may have one meaning to one group of users and a different one to others”
• distinguishing among, inter alia, “descriptive,” “suggestive,” and “arbitrary or fanciful” marks, and noting that only the latter two are protectable absent a showing of secondary meaning

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