PATE

v.

STOUT

Citator

Cited By

• Blisscraft OF Hollywood v. United Plastics Co., 294 F.2d 694 (2d Cir. 1961)
  …ance somewhere in the middle ground between fanciful and descriptive. A designation having a suggestive connotation may nevertheless be a valid trademark. Douglas Laboratories Corp. v. Copper Tan, Inc., 2 Cir., 1954, 210 F. 2d 453, certiorari denied 347 U.S. 968, 74 S.Ct. 779, 98 L.Ed. 1109; Telechron, Inc. v. Telicon Corp., 3 Cir., 1952, 198 F. 2d 903, 906; 3 Callmann, Unfair Competition & Trademarks § 71.2 at 1087 (2d Ed. 1950); 3 Restatement, Torts § 721, comment a (1938). Defendant’s adoption of “Poly…
• Flexitized, Inc. v. Nat'l Flexitized Corp. & Dubin-Haskell Lining Corp., 335 F.2d 774 (2d Cir. 1964)
  …. 1161 (1924); E. F. Drew & Co. v. Pam Industries, Inc., 299 F. 2d 777 (7 Cir. 1962) ; Blisscraft of Hollywood v. United Plastics Co., 294 F. 2d 694 (2 Cir. 1961); Douglas Laboratories Corp. v. Copper Tan, Inc., 210 F. 2d 453 (2 Cir.), cert. denied, 347 U.S. 968, 74 S.Ct. 779, 98 L.Ed. 1109 (1954); National Nu-Grape Co. v. Guest, su [*780] pra. That the terms used to comprise a trademark are misspelled, or represent the combination of several words or parts of words, or are otherwise so formed or malformed…
• Clairol Inc. v. The Gillette Co., 389 F.2d 264 (2d Cir. 1968)
  …Cir. 1962). Clairol contends that by adding the word “Innocent” to the word “Beige,” it has come up with a term which is fanciful and thus deserving of protection, citing Douglas Laboratories Corp. v. Copper Tan, 210 F. 2d 453 (2 Cir.), cert. denied 347 U.S. 968, 74 S.Ct. 779, 98 L.Ed. 1109 (1954). But there is a fundamental difference between that case and this one. The fanciful term “Coppertone” was used in that case as the name of the product being marketed, and there was no question but that it served t…