Legal Opinion
Healthnet, Inc. v. Health Net, Inc.
District Court, S.D. West Virginia
Decided November 5, 2003No. CIV.A. 2:01-0835PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
GOODWIN, District Judge.
Pending before the court is HealthNet, Inc.’s Motion to Disqualify Counsel [Docket 148]. For the reasons that follow, the motion is GRANTED.
BACKGROUND
This case concerns the competing rights of two separate entities to use undeniably similar trademarks: HealthNet and Health Net. On August 5, 1986, long before this case was filed, George G. Guthrie wrote a letter to HealthNet, Inc. (the plaintiff) in which he discussed the legal implications of that corporation’s use of “HealthNet” as a trademark. At the time, Mr. Guthrie was an attorney with…
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