Legal Opinion
Times Mirror Magazines, Inc. v. Las Vegas Sports News, L.L.C., D/B/A Las Vegas Sporting News
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 3, 2000No. 99-1299PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.
In 1886 the phrase “The Sporting News” was granted federal trademark protection and since that time it has been the banner headline of a weekly publication entitled The Sporting News. The mark is now owned by its publisher, Times Mirror Magazines, Inc. This appeal requires us to decide if Times Mirror was entitled to a preliminary injunction enjoining a publisher from using the name Las Vegas Sporting News.
Applying the relatively new Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(c) (“FTDA” or “Act”), the district court issued the…
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