Legal Opinion
Salvo Guns LLC v. Silencerco, LLC
District Court, D. Utah
Decided December 19, 2017No. Case No. 1:15–cv–112Published
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERT J. SHELBY, United States District Judge
This case involves a dispute over the name "Salvo." Plaintiff Salvo Guns holds a trademark on the name, and brought this suit against Defendant SilencerCo after SilencerCo began manufacturing a shotgun silencer it named the "Salvo 12." SilencerCo contends the suit is baseless because Salvo Guns no longer owns the mark, having sold it as part of the 2014 sale of its Layton, Utah location to a third party. SilencerCo has now moved for summary judgment on this basis. For the reasons below, the court concludes SilencerCo has not met its burden of…
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