CHAS. PFIZER & CO., INC.,
v.
G. D. SEARLE & CO.

U.S. | 1959-10-12
No. 142
361 U.S. 819 Supreme Court of the United States (1959) Caution
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  • United AIR Lines, Inc. v. Wiener, 335 F.2d 379 (9th Cir. 1964)
    …e exclusive remedy between concurrently negligent tortfeasors. See Warner v. Capital Transit Company, 162 F.Supp. 253 (D.C.D.C. 1958) ; D. C. Transit System, Inc. v. Slingland, 105 U.S.App.D.C. 264, 266 F. 2d 465, 72 A.L.R.2d 1290 (1959), cert. den. 361 U.S. 819, 80 S.Ct. 62, 4 L.Ed.2d 64 (1959). . Anno. 88 A.L.R.2d 1355, 1356; See Prosser, supra, 249-250. . Leflar, supra, 146-147. . Davis, supra, 538. . Prosser, supra, 250; Davis, supra, 519; Leflar, supra, 148; 88 A.L.R.2d 1355. . 88 A.L.R.2d at 1356…
  • Union Carbide Corp. v. Ever-Ready Inc., 531 F.2d 366 (7th Cir. 1976)
    …inion, a side-by-side comparison of the marks is not the proper test. The test is the consumers’ state of mind when faced with the marks individually. G. D. Searle & Co. v. Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., 265 F. 2d 385, 388 (7th Cir. 1959), cert. denied, 361 U.S. 819, 80 S.Ct. 64, 4 L.Ed.2d 65; Independent Nail & Packing Co., Inc. v. Stronghold Screw Products, Inc., supra, 205 F. 2d at 924. Courts have often held that small changes in words, such as adding or deleting a hyphen, are insufficient to distinguish ma…
  • AMF Inc. v. Sleekcraft Boats, 599 F.2d 341 (9th Cir. 1979)
    …putation is often conveyed word-of-mouth. We recognize that the two sounds [*352] can be distinguished, but the difference is only in a small part of one syllable. In G. D. Searle & Co. v. Chas. Pfizer & Co., 265 F. 2d 385 (CA 7 1959), cert. denied, 361 U.S. 819, 80 S.Ct. 64, 4 L.Ed.2d 65 (1959), the court reversed the trial court’s finding that Bonamine sounded “unlike” Dramamine, stating that: “Slight differences in the sound of trademarks will not protect the infringer.” Id. at 387. The difference here i…

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