552 So. 2d 599 - Head v. Waggoner’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Straus Frank Company v. Brown · Metalock Corp. v. Metal-Locking of Louisiana, Inc. · Home Beverage Service v. Baas · 260 So. 2d 814 - Metalock Corp. v. Metal-Locking of Louisiana, Inc. · 380 So. 2d 1227 - Givens Jewelers, Inc. v. Givens
Most-quoted passages
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“a trade name which is only descriptive of the kind of business involved cannot be exclusively appropriated unless it has acquired a `secondary meaning by a long usage and thus come to exclusively identify the user's particular business.[']. Home Beverage Service v. Baas, 210 La. 873 , 28 So.2d 481 (194[6]); Straus, supra . [ Straus Frank Co. v. Brown, 246 La. 999 , 169 So.2d 77 (1964)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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