Towers v. Advent Software, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
913 F.2d 942 · 1990
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2016
6 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1052 (§ 2 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Sweats Fashions, Inc. v. Pannill Knitting Co. · Stock Pot Restaurant, Inc. v. Stockpot, Inc. · In re Abcor Development Corp. · In re Bed & Breakfast Registry · Otto Roth & Co. v. Universal Foods 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]rade identity rights arise when the term is distinctive, either inherently or through the acquisition of secondary meaning.”
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.