Titlebook: Linguistic Battles in Trademark Disputes; Roger Shuy Book 2002 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002 America

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Sounding Alike and Meaning Alike, advantage of this technological advance and to develop new easy-to-prepare individual entrées, deserts, side-dishes, whole meals, and even lunches. One such microwave lunch was packaged in 213 gram, single-serving cups that could provide a quick meal in about a minute and a half. Two different food

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Descriptiveness: Nouns and Modifiers,yers fight endless battles over such matters. Clearly "Raisin Bran” is a descriptive mark, since the name describes the major ingredients of the cereal product, raisins and bran. Other noun—noun base trademarks that have been held to be merely descriptive include “Beer Nuts,” “Chap Stick,” “Litter B

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Sounding, Looking, and Meaning Different,stin, is said to help prevent cancer of the ovaries and uterus. By the 1980s, however, the other active ingredient, estrogen, began to be suspected of causing breast cancer. This issue was researched by a Dutch oncologist, Dr. Michael Cohen, who, in conjunction with AMR Pharm Holland (a wholly-owned

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Differences in the Ingredients, Qualities, and Characteristics of the Products, which she studied different types of chemical suspensions. One such suspension had molecules that would bind to a certain extent yet come apart easily, melting into a liquid when it was handled. “I got the idea of making it into a children’s toy,” McKee stated (., October, 1990, p. 13). McKee soon

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Going beyond Competing Company and Product Names, also can be brought for the alleged infringement of expressions, including slogans, that are closely associated with product names, such as the General Mills expression “Breakfast of Champions,” which accompanies the name of its breakfast cereal, Wheaties. It is also the case that the names of proc

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