Wsm, Incorporated v. Dennis E. Hilton and Country Shindig Opry, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that whether a mark is generic, descriptive, suggestive, arbitrary or fanciful is generally a factual issue
• “Since ‘opry’ is not an arbitrary, coined or fanciful term, it is not a distinctive mark entitled to protection under the Missouri anti-dilution statute.”
• “How a particular word has been used and how it has been understood by the public is a question of fact.”
• “The correct categorization of a given term is also a factual issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).