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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 18 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from SportFuel, Inc. v. PepsiCo, Inc..

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1 SportFuel, Inc. v. PepsiCo, Inc. Anchor
ca7 · 2019
green “allows individuals to use otherwise trademarked language in a descriptive sense.” 9
2 KP Permanent Make-Up, Inc. v. Lasting Impression I, Inc.
scotus · 2004
green “cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive.” 5
3 KP Permanent Make-Up, Inc. v. Lasting Impression I, Inc.
scotus · 2004
green “holder of a registered mark ... has a civil action against anyone employ- ing an imitation of it in commerce when 'such use is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive.” 4

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