Legal Opinion
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. v. Vanguard Index Trust
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 25, 2001No. 00 CIV 4247PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT AND DENYING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR JUDGMENT
HELLERSTEIN, District Judge.
This case involves trademark and other intellectual property rights to famous financial service indices: the Standard & Poor’s 500 Composite Stock Price Index and two related S & P indices. Plaintiff, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., owns the property rights to the relevant trademarks and indices. For more than fifteen years, Defendants, Vanguard Index Trust and the Vanguard Group, Inc., have been using the S & P trademarks, and the index data symbolized by the…
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