United States Fifth Circuit

Where a company advertises a product that is only possible through the use of a process for which the company does not have a license, the inventor of the process has standing under the Lanham Act even if he is not a competitor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/12/2001
• Published 09/12/2001

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before STEWART and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG , Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Timothy J. McNamara (argued), Joseph L. Lemoine, Jr., Jesse D. Lambert, Onebane, Bernard, Torian, Diaz, McNamara & Abell, Lafayette, LA, for Logan., Mark Fox Evens (argued), Mary Margaret Utterback, Thelen, Reid & Priest, Washington, DC, Douglas C. Longman, Jr., Perret Doise, Lafayette, LA, for Original Honey Baked Ham Company of Georgia and Honeybaked Foods Inc.