Legal Opinion
Mead Data Central, Inc. v. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. And Toyota Motor Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 18, 1989No. 862, Docket 89-7001PublishedCited by 165 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. and its parent, Toyota Motor Corporation, appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Edelstein, J.) enjoining them from using LEXUS as the name of their new luxury automobile and the division that manufactures it. The district court held that, under New York’s antidilution statute, N.Y.Gen.Bus.Law § 368-d, Toyota’s use of LEXUS is likely to dilute the distinctive quality of LEXIS, the mark used by Mead Data Central, Inc. for its computerized legal research service, 702…
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