Legal Opinion
Anvil Brand, Inc. v. Consolidated Foods Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 8, 1978No. 76 CIV 4419 (LBS)PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SAND, District Judge.
This trademark infringement case finds two large corporations complaining primarily of the other’s use of the mark RUGGER or RUGGERS (hereinafter collectively “RUGGER”) on knit sport shirts. Plaintiff, Anvil Brand, Incorporated (“Anvil”), a Delaware corporation, is doubtless better known by the name it used prior to September 23,1977, the BVD Company, Inc. Anvil is part of a conglomerate known as the Rapid American Corporation and purports to be the owner of the registered trademark RUGGERS for use on its sport shirts. 1 Consolidated Foods Corporation, a Maryland…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- James Burrough Limited and Kobrand Corporation v. Sign of the Beefeater, Inc. And Montgomery Ward & Co., IncorporatedCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1978
- Polo Fashions, Inc. v. Extra Special Products, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1978
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