LOUISIANA WORLD EXPOSITION v. LOGUE

No. 84-3032.

746 F.2d 1033 (1984)

LOUISIANA WORLD EXPOSITION, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. R. Gordon LOGUE, Jr., New Orleans World's Fair, Inc., Louisiana World's Fair, Inc., 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, Inc., 1984 World's Fair, Inc., New Orleans World Exposition, Inc., 1984 New Orleans World Exposition, Inc., 1984 New Orleans World's Fair, Inc., Official 1984 New Orleans World's Fair, Inc., World's Fair, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 5, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Oestreicher, II, Ralph S. Whalen, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellants.

Thomas S. Keaty, David M. Kelly, Margaret Ann Brown, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GEE and POLITZ, Circuit Judges, and BELEW, District Judge.


BELEW, District Judge:

Defendants-Appellants appeal from an order of the District Court permanently enjoining them from making or selling merchandise bearing a name or emblem confusingly similar to those of the Plaintiff. We affirm that order.

Factual Background

Defendant Logue is an attorney living in New Orleans. In early 1980, having heard that the World's Fair might be located in his home town four years hence, Logue devised a scheme whereby...

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