Roselux Chemical Co., Inc., Bonnie-Lan, Inc., and Proxite Products, Inc. v. Parsons Ammonia Company, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
299 F.2d 855 · 1962
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Miller Brewing Co. v. G. Heileman Brewing Co. (1977), Pebble Beach Company v. Tour I Limited Resorts of Pinehurst Incorporated (1998)
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co. · In re Deister Concentrator Co. · De Walt, Inc. v. Magna Power Tool Corp. · Dewalt, Inc. v. Magna Power Tool Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As of the time when registration is being sought, others are, or in the immediate past were, using the term descriptively on the same or closely similar products, precluding the possibility that [“sudsy”] could indicate any origin only in Parsons (the registrant). The word “sudsy” started as a type designation and is still primarily such a word. 299 F.2d at 863 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is a common descriptive name of the product we cannot fail to take into consideration the class of people who will commonly be using it and what they will commonly call it. The record here shows, through the testimony of Mr. Ingham and in other respects, that the product is intended, not for chemists, but in his words for”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“6 The United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals has held that if the validity of a registration depends on the secondary meaning of the mark, registrability”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.