Consumers Union of United States, Inc. v. New Regina Corp.

OPINION

ROBERT J. WARD, District Judge.

Plaintiff Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. (“CU”) originally filed this action against defendants the New Regina Corporation ("Regina”) and Grey Advertising Inc. (“Grey”) seeking injunctive relief and compensatory and punitive damages arising out of the broadcast of television commercials which quoted verbatim from a copyrighted article published in its periodical Consumer Reports. CU alleges that defendants’ quotation of its evaluations and attribution of the evaluations to CU violated its federal copyright and trademark rights and constituted…