Legal Opinion
Alta Vista Corp., Ltd. v. Digital Equipment Corp.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided October 16, 1998No. Civil Action 98-11468-NGPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GERTNER, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This case involves a dispute over the use of nearly identical tráde and service-marks. 1 The Plaintiff, Alta Vista Corporation, Ltd. (“AVC”), is the senior user of the servicemark “Alta Vista” in New York City and Los Angeles, where it started to conduct business in 1993. The Defendant, Digital Equipment Corporation (“Digital”), introduced a nearly identical mark, “Alta-Vista,” across the country in 1995. Digital is therefore the junior user of this closely related family of marks in New York, City and Los Angeles. To prevent…
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