Legal Opinion
Lucent Information Management, Inc. v. Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 3, 1999No. 98-7203PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This trademark case involves the question of what constitutes “use” sufficient to establish common law trademark rights. Lucent Information Management, Inc. (“LIM”) argues that it had common law rights in the mark “LUCENT” prior to Lucent Technologies, Inc. (“LTI”), based on its usage of that mark before LTI filed an intent to use (“ITU”) application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”), indicating its intention to use the mark LUCENT in commerce. LIM further alleges that LTI did not act in good faith in…
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