WORLD CARPETS, INC. v. DICK LITTRELL'S NEW WORLD CARPETS

No. 29873.

438 F.2d 482 (1971)

WORLD CARPETS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DICK LITTRELL'S NEW WORLD CARPETS, Joseph E. Russell et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 8, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yale B. Griffis, Dallas, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

V. Bryan Medlock, Jr., D. Carl Richards, Richards, Harris & Hubbard, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before JONES, GEWIN and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Circuit Judge:

World Carpets, Inc., a Georgia corporation engaged in the manufacture and wholesale distribution of carpets (hereinafter World Carpets), brought this action for infringement of two United States trademark registrations of the mark WORLD against a group of Dallas, Texas carpet retailers (hereinafter collectively, the New World group or New World), who were using the words NEW WORLD CARPETS in the trade name of their businesses. We hold the mark...

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