Legal Opinion
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Nationwide Independent Directory Service, Inc.
District Court, W.D. Arkansas
Decided January 4, 1974No. Civ. HS 72-C-21PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
OREN HARRIS, Chief Judge.
This is an action for copyright infringement and unfair competition. Plaintiff first charges that defendants have copied, in a telephone directory published by defendants, listings and art work from plaintiff’s copyrighted telephone directory in violation of the Copyright Act of 1909, 17 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq. Plaintiff’s second cause of action sounds in unfair competition and challenges defendant’s use of the phrase “Yellow Pages” and the duplication of plaintiff’s claimed Yellow Pages trademark in the directory published by defendants. Damages and injunctive…
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