Legal Opinion
Cicena Ltd. And Cicena, Inc. v. Columbia Telecommunications Group
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 3, 1990No. 19-7086PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Circuit Judge.
Columbia Telecommunications Group (CTG) appeals from the September 27, 1989 order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, Civil Action No. 89 Civ. 6078, preliminarily enjoining CTG from infringing the trade dress of Cicena Ltd.’s and Cicena, Inc.’s (collectively Cicena’s) clear plastic neon-lit telephone pursuant to section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a). We vacate and remand.
BACKGROUND
This lawsuit centers around both parties’ manufacture and sale of clear plastic neon-lit telephones. Cicena began making its telephone, which it calls the…
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