US-CA9 · jury_instructions
9th Cir. Model Jury Instr. (Civil) 15.3
Definition—Trade Dress (15 U.S.C. § 1125(a))
Trade dress is the non-functional physical detail and design of a product or its packaging, which [indicates] [or] [identifies] the product’s source and distinguishes it from the products of others.
Trade dress is the product’s total image and overall appearance, and may include features such as size, shape, color, color combinations, texture, or graphics. In other words, trade dress is the form in which a person presents a product to the market, its manner of display.
[Name of corporation, if a party] is a person as that term is used in these instructions.]
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