Legal Opinion
Pennzoil Co. v. Crown Central Petroleum Corporation
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided July 15, 1943No. Civil Action 1293PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHESNUT, District Judge.
In this case the plaintiffs seek an injunction and accounting for profits and damages from the defendant for alleged infringement of a federally registered trademark and for related unfair competition. The defenses are (1) that the plaintiffs’ trade-mark is invalid because descriptive; (2) the defendant’s mark is not an infringement by colorable imitation or otherwise; (3) that there was no unfair competition either actual or constructive and (4) laches.
The evidence has been presented, on the part of the plaintiffs, primarily by depositions of many trade witnesses and…
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