Showtime Marketing, Inc. v. Doe

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, District Judge.

Showtime Marketing, Inc. (“Showtime”) initially sued unnamed “John Doe” defendants for injunctive relief against expected infringers of the “UFO” service mark or of likenesses of members of the “UFO” rock group (by selling unauthorized T-shirts bearing that logo or those likenesses) at a forthcoming rock concert performance.1 Although the action was assigned to this Court’s calendar, at the time it was filed this Court was away on a brief vacation. Accordingly on March 12, 1982 Showtime’s counsel sought and obtained an ex parte temporary…