SPRING PACKING CORP.

v.

NATIONAL WASTE CO., INC.

Citator

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• McGREGOR-Doniger Inc. v. Drizzle Inc., 599 F.2d 1126 (2d Cir. 1979)
  …verse, Inc. v. Patricelli, 408 F. 2d 506, 509 (2d Cir. 1969). Accord, Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc. v. Hills Supermarkets, Inc., 428 F. 2d 379, 380 (2d Cir. 1970); Miles Shoes, Inc. v. R. H. Macy & Co., 199 F. 2d 602, 602-03 (2d Cir. 1952), cert. denied, 345 U.S. 909, 73 S. Ct. 650, 97 L.Ed. 1345 (1953). There are two principles especially important to performing this task. First, even close similarity between two marks is not dispositive of the issue of likelihood of confusion. “Similarity in and of itself is…
• Mushroom Makers v. R. G. Barry Corp., 580 F.2d 44 (2d Cir. 1978)
  …d upon the difficulty of establishing actual confusion on the part of retail customers, see W. E. Bassett Co. v. Revlon, Inc., 435 F. 2d 656, 662 (2d Cir. 1970); Miles Shoes, Inc. v. R. H. Macy Co., 199 F. 2d 602, 603 (2d Cir. 1952), cert. denied, 345 U.S. 909, 73 S.Ct. 650, 97 L.Ed. 1345 (1953), the district court quite properly noted that not a single instance of consumer confusion was actually demonstrated in the trial record. There was some evidence of clerical errors and joint advertising involving t…
• The W. E. Bassett Co. v. Revlon, Inc., 435 F.2d 656 (2d Cir. 1970)
  …s business; and Revlon used the name in the teeth of the patent office’s refusal to register it. See Morgan v. Daniels, 153 U.S. 120, 14 S.Ct. 772, 38 L.Ed. 657 (1894); Miles Shoes, Inc. v. R. H. Macy Co., 199 F. 2d 602 (2d Cir. 1952), cert. denied 345 U. S. 909, 73 S.Ct. 650, 97 L.Ed. 1345 (1953). Cf. Kiki Undies v. Promenade Hosiery Mills, 411 F. 2d 1097 (2d Cir. 1969), cert. dismissed, 396 U.S. 1054, 90 S.Ct. 707, 24 L.Ed.2d 698 (1970). The argument that Revlon’s use of its well-publicized name along wit…