Legal Opinion
Prufrock Ltd., Inc. v. Dan Lasater Allan Roberts Garland Streett Dixie Management, Inc., Individually & D/B/A Spring House Restaurant
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 6, 1986No. 85-1024PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
Dan Lasater, Allan Roberts, Garland Streett, and Dixie Management, Inc. (collectively Dixie Management), appeal from the portion of the district court’s order that enjoins Dixie Management from using in its restaurant a trade dress confusingly similar to the trade dress Prufrock Ltd., Inc. (Prufrock) uses in its restaurants. Prufrock’s action is based on section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a). We reverse.
I. FACTS
Prufrock operates two restaurant chains, the Black-Eyed Pea chain and the Dixie House chain. The theme, or as Prufrock terms it, the “core concept”…
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