Weiss Noodle Company v. Golden Cracknel and Specialty Company

How courts have described this case

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• applying ban on trademarking generic names to foreign equivalents, and holding that “ha-lush-ka,” phonetic spelling of Hungarian word for “egg noodles,” is non-protectible
• HA-LUSH-KA refused registration as phonetic equivalent of Hungarian word for noodles, despite some evidence of acquired distinctiveness
• “Ha-Lush-Ka” a generic name for haluska, the Hungarian word for egg noodle
• “no one can be granted the exclusive use of the name of an article”
• HA-LUSH-KA held to be the generic equivalent of the Hungarian word “haluska”
• denying registration of a generically descriptive mark in Hungarian

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).