Legal Opinion
Datacomm Interface, Inc. v. Computerworld, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 18, 1986PublishedCited by 148 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
In December, 1975, the plaintiff, Datacomm Interface, Inc. (DCI), commenced this nonjury unfair competition action against DataComm User, Inc. (User), and its parent company Computerworld, Inc. All these parties are Massachusetts corporations. Shortly thereafter, DCI obtained a temporary restraining order against User and Computerworld, enjoining the defendants from using the name “DATACOMM ’76” to promote its 1976 national data communications trade show. The judge referred the case to a master and on his recommendation dissolved the temporary restraining order and also denied DCI’s motion…
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