origin
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 505 U.S. 763 - Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. · 1992Most cited · 3,036 citing opinions
the geographic location in which the goods originated, and in fact, the phrase "false designation of origin" was understood to be limited to false advertising of geographic origin.
How often courts cite the case defining “origin”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “origin” — 3,023 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.