Mealey's (January 5, 2018, 12:21 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Because evidence and testimony established that the Vietnamese word “cot” is generic in the context of soup, a Vietnamese food distributor argues in a Dec. 19 brief to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that a trial court correctly canceled a rival firm’s trademarks incorporating the word and issued judgment accordingly on the rival’s infringement claims (Quoc Viet Foods Inc. v. VV Foods LLC, et al., No. 17-55331 and 17-55742, 9th Cir.)....