W.T. Rogers Company, Inc. v. Wendell R. Keene and Keene Manufacturing, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that trademark protection should be denied when a manufacturer tries to monopolize the few words that can be used to describe the product
• “Rare is the manufacturer who will not try to choose a pleasing name, symbol, or design feature as his trademark”
• 'Just as an allegedly erroneous instruction must be viewed in the context of the full charge and other surrounding circumstances, an allegedly erroneous omission of a sentence must also be viewed in context'
• “Just as an allegedly erroneous instruction must be viewed in the context of the full charge and other surrounding circumstances, an allegedly erroneous omission of a sentence must also be viewed in context.”
• ‘Just as an allegedly erroneous instruction must be viewed in the context of the full charge and other surrounding circumstances, an allegedly erroneous omission of a sentence must also be viewed in context’
• “Though a producer does not lose a design trademark just because the public finds it pleasing, there may come a point where the design feature is so important to the value of the product to consumers that continued trademark protection would deprive them of competitive alternatives^]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).