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14 - Taking a Second Look at Secondary Meaning

A Marketing Perspective on Circuit Court Factors

from Part III - Methodological Advances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2023

Jacob E. Gersen
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
Joel H. Steckel
Affiliation:
New York University
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Summary

A brand element establishes secondary meaning when it becomes synonymous with the brand and serves as a source identifier for consumers. In legal parlance, secondary meaning has been defined as occurring when “in the minds of the public, the primary significance of a product feature or term is to identify the source of the product rather than the product itself.”1

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Print publication year: 2023

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