Legal Opinion
American Rice, Inc. v. The Arkansas Rice Growers Cooperative Association, D/B/A Riceland Foods
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 28, 1983No. 82-2146PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
In this interesting and unusual trademark dispute, we are asked to explore the extraterritorial reach of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq. The district court, 532 F.Supp. 1376 (1982), concluded that it was not powerless to prevent the acts complained of, despite the facts that the sales of the products bearing the allegedly infringing marks were consummated in a foreign country, Saudi Arabia, and none of those products found their way back into the United States. Finding also that there was a likelihood of confusion between the competing products, the district…
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