Legal Opinion
Sunbeam Products Inc v. The West Bend Co
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 15, 1997No. 96-60413, 96-60540PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
The West Bend Company challenges a preliminary injunction entered pursuant to the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a). Finding no reversible error, we affirm.
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Sunbeam Products, Inc. (“Sunbeam”), sued The West Bend Company (“West Bend”), requesting injunctive relief to bar West Bend from manufacturing and marketing a stand mixer, Model No. 41012 (“West Bend Mixer # 1”). The complaint alleged that West Bend Mixer # 1 unlawfully replicated the product configuration of a stand mixer made by Sunbeam, the “American Classic Mixmas-ter®,” Model No. 2360.
Sunbeam alleged that…
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