common law of trademarks
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 240 U.S. 403 - Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf · 1916Most cited · 1,666 citing opinions
The common law of trademarks is but a part of the broader law of unfair competition.
How often courts cite the case defining “common law of trademarks”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “common law of trademarks” — 1,648 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.