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INDIANAPOLIS COLTS, INC. v. METRO. BALTIMORE FOOTBALL

No. 94-2578.

34 F.3d 410 (1994)

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS, INC., National Football League Properties, Inc., and National Football League, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, James L. Speros, and Canadian Football League, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 12, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel C. Emerson, Bose, McKinney & Evans, Indianapolis, IN, Nadine P. Flynn, John P. Reiner, Robert L. Raskopf, Townley & Updike, New York City, for Indianapolis Colts, Inc., National Football League Properties, Inc., National Football League.

Stanley C. Fickle, Robert P. Johnstone, Michael Rosiello, Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, IN, George F. Pappas, David J. Heubeck, Mitchell Y. Mirviss, Vicki Margolis, Kenneth C. Bass, III, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, MD, for Metro. Baltimore Football Club Ltd. Partnership, James L. Speros, Canadian Football League.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and BAUER and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

The Indianapolis Colts and the National Football League, to which the Colts belong, brought suit for trademark infringement (15 U.S.C. §§ 1051 et seq.) against the Canadian Football League's new team in Baltimore, which wants to call itself the "Baltimore CFL Colts." (Four of the Canadian Football League's teams are American.) The plaintiffs obtained a preliminary injunction against the new team's using the name "Colts," or "Baltimore...

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