Legal Opinion
Libman Company v. Vining Industries, Incorporated
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 10, 1996No. 95-1905PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The Libman Company brought suit against Vining Industries for infringement of a federally registered trademark on a broom. After a bench trial, the district judge enjoined Vining from selling the infringing line of brooms and in addition awarded Libman almost $1.2 million in monetary relief, representing Vining’s profits from that sale. The main ground of the appeal, and the only one we need discuss, is that the district judge committed clear error in finding that consumers were likely to mistake Vining’s broom for Libman’s.
A broom has, of course, a head of bristles. In…
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