State ex rel. Elvis Presley International Memorial Foundation v. Crowell

OPINION

KOCH, Judge.

This appeal involves a dispute between two not-for-profit corporations concerning their respective rights to use Elvis Presley’s name as part of their corporate names. The case began when one corporation filed an unfair competition action in the Chancery Court for Davidson County to dissolve the other corporation and to prevent it from using Elvis Presley’s name. Elvis Presley's estate intervened on behalf of the defendant corporation. It asserted that it had given the defendant corporation permission to use Elvis Presley’s name and that it had not given similar permission…