Yellowbook Inc. v. Steven Brandeberry

OPINION

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

This case involves a trademark dispute over the right to use the “AMTEL” name and marks for Phonebooks in various Ohio counties. In 2002, Defendant Steven Brandeberry sold his phonebook business, operated under the name AMTEL, to Barney White, who in turn sold the business to Yellowbook, a national publisher of yellow-pages directories. In 2009, Brande-berry decided to start a rival phonebook under the AMTEL name. Yellowbook brought this trademark-infringement suit; we must decide whether exclusive rights to AMTEL were transferred in the sale to White (and thus to…