United States Seventh Circuit

A newspaper's reproduction of its headline, along with its masthead, on souvenir products is not a trademark use because the masthead identifies the newspaper as the source of the products and identifies the phrase as a newspaper headline reporting on an event, and not as a trademark.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2001
• Decided 09/27/2001
• Published 09/27/2001

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, MANION and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Reginald J. Hill, Chicago, IL, argued, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James A. Klenk, Steven L. Merouse, argued, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.