Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or quality of being incontestable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being incontestable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic of being
incontestable . - noun law In
United States trademark law , the state of having beenregistered as a trademark for more than five consecutive years without a challenge, and thereforeconclusively presumed not to causeconfusion with any other trademark, and to have acquireddistinctiveness .
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Examples
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Some courts treat incontestability as creating a rebuttable presumption of strength, but the analysis should be separate: “there is no apparent reason that the incontestable status of a mark should automatically translate into a well-known mark.”
Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Kaplan was struck first by their strict adherence to hierarchy — what he refers to as "the incontestability of command."
In the Line of Fire 2004
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All the elements came together fast, owing to a factor largely missing from civilian life: the incontestability of command.
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Kaplan was struck first by their strict adherence to hierarchy — what he refers to as "the incontestability of command."
In the Line of Fire 2004
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All the elements came together fast, owing to a factor largely missing from civilian life: the incontestability of command.
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Kaplan was struck first by their strict adherence to hierarchy — what he refers to as "the incontestability of command."
In the Line of Fire 2004
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Some courts treat incontestability as creating a rebuttable presumption of strength, but the analysis should be separate: "there is no apparent reason that the incontestable status of a mark should automatically translate into a well-known mark."
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Side note: trademark really gets confused when it comes to incontestability of a descriptive term that was registered in a particular form, like a particular font — do you focus on the similarity to the mark as specifically displayed, or do you look at the similarity of the word component of the mark, which it’s possible to abstract from the mark?
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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(Though I think this is a descriptive/nominative use, there is arguably a doctrinal reason to stick with descriptiveness: some of LEYE’s marks are incontestable and nominative fair use is not a specifically listed defense to incontestability; however, courts have used nominative fair use to find no confusion as a matter of law, so that’s not a huge barrier to applying the doctrine to incontestable marks.)
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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(Though I think this is a descriptive/nominative use, there is arguably a doctrinal reason to stick with descriptiveness: some of LEYE’s marks are incontestable and nominative fair use is not a specifically listed defense to incontestability; however, courts have used nominative fair use to find no confusion as a matter of law, so that’s not a huge barrier to applying the doctrine to incontestable marks.)
When is descriptive use not descriptive? Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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