Texas Pete's not made in Texas lawsuit (Truth in advertising)

[tehdang]

Thing about trademark infringement is that a company has to defend against all cases of it or they lose the ability to defend their trademark in future cases. This is one of the reasons why companies like Disney will go hard after people for using their trademarks.

Yes. They are intimately related as concepts, but not identical in terms of laws implicated and results of a loss in suit.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

Believing the consumer is misled to believe an untruth (Made in Texas) is intimately related to believing the consumer is misled by an imitation brand (this Jack Daniels is actually the Jack Daniels you know).

That's a stretch.