Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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are descriptive. The composite may be more than the mere sum of its parts. ... Common words in which no one may acquire a trademark because they are descriptive or generic may, when used in combination, become a valid trademark. 2 J. Thomas McCarthy, McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition § 11:26 (4th ed. 2016); see also id. § 11:31 (explaining that the “slight misspelling of a word will not generally turn a descriptive word into a nondescriptive mark”). Examples of such composite marks include SUGAR & SPICE, MOUSE SEED, and SEASON-ALL, all of which are non-descriptive marks imbued with secondary meaning, but which are composed of generic or descriptive terms that are not themselves eligible for trademark protection. Id. § 11:26; see also Duluth News-Tribune, 84 F.3d at 1097 , (a) Effect of Registration Notwithstanding
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that if a motion implicates the merits of a cause of action the district court should find jurisdiction exists and treat the objection as a direct attack on the merits of the plaintiffs case
B. recognizing that the district court did not reach the merits
C. holding that although the mark duluth newstribune merits some level of protection the shorthand newstribune merits none
D. recognizing that sanctions are collateral to the merits of the case and may be considered even after the merits are no longer before the district court
E. holding that a security award separable from the merits of the arbitration which was rendered prior to a hearing on the merits was sufficiently final to be reviewed under the faa
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.