context: In addition, the chronology also set forth evidence from patent, trademark and copyright registrations indicating that even the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office have come to recognize the term as signifying a type of technology in the semiconductor industry. Thus, the overwhelming evidence in this case obviates the need for ST to have conducted a consumer survey.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 802 F.2d 934, at 941
citation_a.parenthetical: district court's grant of summary judgment on issue of genericness without survey affirmed by appellate court
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Liquid Controls, 802 F.2d 934 at 941 (district court’s grant of summary judgment on issue of genericness without survey affirmed by appellate court); see also Barrios v. American Thermal Instruments, Inc., 712 F.Supp. 611, 614 (S.D.Ohio 1988) (consumer survey not necessary and “dictionaries, newspapers, and other publications may be used to establish that a term is generic”); Suh v. Yang, 987 F.Supp. 783, 791, n. 4 (N.D.Cal.1997) (surveys “de rigeur,” but not required; summary judgment without survey granted); Expoconsul International, Inc., v. A/E Systems, Inc., 755 F.Supp. 1237, 1247 (S.D.N.Y.1991) (same).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 712 F.Supp. 611, 614
citation_b.parenthetical: consumer survey not necessary and "dictionaries, newspapers, and other publications may be used to establish that a term is generic"
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Liquid Controls, 802 F.2d 934 at 941 (district court’s grant of summary judgment on issue of genericness without survey affirmed by appellate court); see also Barrios v. American Thermal Instruments, Inc., 712 F.Supp. 611, 614 (S.D.Ohio 1988) (consumer survey not necessary and “dictionaries, newspapers, and other publications may be used to establish that a term is generic”); Suh v. Yang, 987 F.Supp. 783, 791, n. 4 (N.D.Cal.1997) (surveys “de rigeur,” but not required; summary judgment without survey granted); Expoconsul International, Inc., v. A/E Systems, Inc., 755 F.Supp. 1237, 1247 (S.D.N.Y.1991) (same).