Wrist-Rocket Manufacturing Co., Inc., Cross-Appellee v. Saunders Archery Company, Cross-Appellant

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• recognizing that while a registered trademark owner's rights can become incontestible, other common-law trademark owners retain exclusive rights in those areas where their rights antedated registration
• stating that “common-law trademark rights cannot be established by advertising alone”
• relying on Sweetarts only for geographical zone of common law rights and not \use\ analysis
• relying on an earlier Eighth Circuit case for its determination of what common-law rights the prior user had at the time of registration
• no occasion to consider offensive/defensive dichotomy

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