Courts have generally adopted a common sense approach to the conceptual/commercial analysis in reverse confusion cases - focusing on the conceptual strength of the senior user's mark and the ...
Intrastate Distributors, Inc. (“IDI”) filed applications to register the marks “KIST” and “kist” for soft drinks as well as concentrates and syrups for making soft drinks. Sunkist, which owns multiple ...
In October 2019, IDI filed an intent-to-use application to register KIST in standard characters and a related stylized mark for use with “[s]oft drinks, namely, sodas and sparkling water; concentrates ...