Legal Opinion
Brennan's Inc. v. Colbert
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 13, 2016No. 2015-CA-0325PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.
I,At the prompting of its local counsel, Brennan’s Inc. engaged the services of Maryland attorney, Edward Tuck Colbert, because of his specialized expertise in trademark-infringement law an^ litigation. At the time, Brennan’s owned the world-famous New Orleans restaurant of the same name, along with registered trademarks and trade names.1 Younger rela*1104tives of Brennan’s shareholders were emerging restaurateurs who, naturally, were interested in exploiting, their family name in order to attract customers to their own emerging restaurants.
Mr. Colbert drafted proposed…
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