Legal Opinion
Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc. v. Surgical Technologies, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 4, 2002No. 00-55147PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WHYTE, District Judge.
Appellant Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc. (“Storz”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to ap-pellees Surgical Technologies, Inc. (“Sur-gi-Tech”) and Pacific Medical Repair (“Pacific”) on Storz’s trademark infringement claims.1 Storz contends that the district court erred in determining that Surgi-Tech’s repair and refurbishment of Storz’s rigid endoscopes, and Pacific’s solicitation of those repairs, do not constitute Lanham Act violations.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Factual Background
Karl Storz GmbH & Co. (“KST”) has manufactured and sold Karl Storz…
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