Legal Opinion
GEISHA, LLC v. Tuccillo
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 4, 2007No. 05 C 5529PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
REBECCA R. PALLMEYER, District Judge.
Plaintiff Geisha LLC (“Geisha”) owns and operates the restaurant “Japonais” in Chicago, Illinois. Geisha has utilized a stylized rendering of the name “Japonais” in connection with the restaurant since its opening in September 2003, and asserts that it has thus acquired trademark rights in that design. In June 2004, Defendant Roy Tuccillo (“Tuccillo”), a New York resident who runs a frozen seafood company, filed a federal trademark application for a virtually identical design. Tucillo has further expressed his intent to use the…
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