Legal Opinion
American Honda Motor Co. v. Pro-Line Protoform
District Court, C.D. California
Decided June 23, 2004No. CV04-0380 CASPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION
SNYDER, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff American Honda Motor Co., Inc. (“Honda”) brought this action against Defendant Pro-Line Protoform and D.T. Mattson Enterprises, Inc. (together, “Defendant” or “Pro-Line”) to enjoin Pro-Line from infringing Honda’s trade dress by manufacturing model car bodies in the distinctive shapes of Honda’s world-famous HONDA® and ACURA® automobiles and from infringing Honda’s trademark rights by embossing such model car bodies with counterfeits of Honda’s registered trademarks and packaging them for sale with decal…
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