GIBSON GUITAR CORP. v. PAUL REED SMITH GUITARS, LP

No. 3:00-1079.

311 F.Supp.2d 690 (2004)

GIBSON GUITAR CORP., Plaintiff, v. PAUL REED SMITH GUITARS, LP, Defendant.

United States District Court, M.D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

As Corrected February 23, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward D. Lanquist, Jr., Waddey & Patterson, Nashville, TN, Jonathan D. Schiller, Kevin R. Anthony, David R. Boyd, Seth Goldberg, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Washington, DC, John F. Triggs, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York, NY, David Alan Kessler, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, McLean, VA, for Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant.

Alan Dale Johnson, Alfred H. Knight, Willis & Knight, Phillip Lester North, A. Gregory Ramos, North, Pursell, Ramos & Jameson, PLC, Nashville, TN, William D. Coston, Kevin B. Collins, Venable, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant/Counter-Claimant.

Joseph D. Lewis, Barnes & Thornburg, Washington, DC, for Perry Palan, Paul Fahrenkopf.


MEMORANDUM

HAYNES, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Gibson Guitar Corporation, filed this action for damages and injunctive relief under the Trademark Act of 1946, the Lanham Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1051 et seq. against Defendant Paul Reed Smith, LP ("PRS"). Gibson asserts claims for trademark infringement, counterfeiting, unfair competition and trademark dilution. Gibson's claims involve its

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