Legal Opinion
Kappa Sigma Fraternity v. Kappa Sigma Gamma Fraternity
District Court, D. New Hampshire
Decided February 23, 1987No. Civ. 85-721-DPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
DEVINE, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs, a national collegiate Greek-letter fraternity and its officers, have brought this suit against a former, now disaffiliated, chapter and its officers alleging that defendants’ use of a chameleonic variant of plaintiffs’ federally registered fraternal trademarks fleeces the public. Seeking injunctive and ancillary relief only, not money damages, plaintiffs claim trademark and service mark infringement, false designation of membership, and misrepresentation pursuant to the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1051-1127 (Counts I — III), and tortious interference with a…
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