Holiday Inns of America, Inc. v. Holiday House, Inc.

OPINION

DUMBAULD, District Judge.

On May 29, 1967, plaintiff, a Tennessee corporation, filed the instant suit seeking a declaratory judgment that, by virtue of its registration of the trade name, trade mark, or service mark “Holiday Inn” on July 13, 1954, under the Lanham Act of July 5, 1946, 60 Stat. 427, 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq., plaintiff is entitled to nationwide use by federal law of its trade mark thus registered and hence in particular is entitled to authorize its licensee Apico Inns of Pittsburgh, Inc., to operate a motel under said trade name at Monroe-ville, within this District, near…