United States Seventh Circuit

Even if the two parties to a trademark dispute do not provide substantially similar goods or services, a district court may find infringement as a matter of law where the goods or services are "closely related" and consumers could attribute them to the same source.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2001
• Decided 10/02/2001
• Published 10/02/2001

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael H. King, Ross & Hardies, Chicago, IL, Robert G. McMorrow (Argued), Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Jerome W. Pinderski, Pinderski & Pinderski, Palatine, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.