United States Ninth Circuit

Where the owner of a service mark cannot show any sales of the service, the totality of the circumstances test suggests insufficient use in commerce to justify the protection of the Lanham Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/10/2000
• Decided 03/20/2001
• Published 03/20/2001

Judges

• Before:  FERNANDEZ, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges, and WEINER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• R. Joseph Trojan,Eric J. Aagaard, Shelly Sanchez Maurer, Keyvan Davoudian, Trojan Law Offices, Beverly Hills, California, for plaintiff-appellant Allen Chance, an individual d/b/a/ T.A.B. Systems., David S. Elkind, Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol, New York, NY, for Teletrac Inc., a California Corporation.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Romanski, Karren M. Shorofsky, Steinhart & Falconer, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellees Pac-Tel Teletrac Inc., a California Corporation;  Kenneth Weisner, an individual;  Pac-Tel Teletrac, a joint venture;  International Teletrac Systems Inc., a Corporation;  Airtouch Teletrac, a Delaware Corporation;  and Airtouch Communications Inc., a Delaware Corporation.