United States Tenth Circuit

In a trademark infringement suit concerning the name of a tire store, dismissal of plaintiff's claims are reversed where the district court erred in finding that trademarks protect only against directly competing uses of a mark.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/07/2005
• Published 01/07/2005

Judges

• McCONNELL, Circuit Judge., Before McCONNELL, HOLLOWAY, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael G. Sanderson (Juan L. Flores, Sheehan, Sheehan & Stelzner, P.A., Albuquerque, NM;  J. Todd Timmerman and Duane A. Daiker, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, Tampa, FL, with him on briefs), Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edward Ricco (Travis R. Collier, DeWitt M. Morgan, and Matthew S. Wermager with him on the brief), Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant-Appellee.