Glover v. Ampak, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.3d 57 · 1996
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Retail Services Inc. v. Freebies Publishing (2004), Ale House Management Incorporated v. Raleigh Ale House Incorporated John a Duranko (2000)
10 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1057 (§ 7 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1064 (§ 14 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1119 (§ 37 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · Pizzeria Uno Corp. v. Temple · Helene Curtis Industries, Inc. v. Church & Dwight Co., Inc., and Allied Chemical Corporation, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. v. Helene Curtis Industries, Inc., and N.W. Ayer & Son, Incorporated D/B/A N.W. Ayer Abh International · King-Seeley Thermos Co. v. Aladdin Industries, Inc. · Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc. v. Legal Services 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) identify the class of product or service to which use of the mark is relevant; (2) identify the relevant purchasing public of the class of product or service; and (3) prove that the primary significance of the mark to the relevant public is to identify the class of product or service to which the mark relates.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the primary significance of the mark [is] its indication of the nature or class of the product or service, rather than an indication of source.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“purchaser testimony, consumer surveys, listings and dictionaries, trade journals, newspapers, and other publications.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.