HODGE CHILE COMPANY v. KNA FOOD DISTRIBUTORS, INC.

Nos. 83-2610, 83-2696.

741 F.2d 1086 (1984)

HODGE CHILE COMPANY, Appellant, v. KNA FOOD DISTRIBUTORS, INC., Kenneth E. Adelmann and Harry Brunsen, Appellees. HODGE CHILE COMPANY, Appellee, v. KNA FOOD DISTRIBUTORS, INC., Kenneth E. Adelmann and Harry Brunsen, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 23, 1984.

Rehearing Denied September 24, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Fenlon, Clayton, Mo., A. Fuller Glaser, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., for Hodge Chile Co.

Francis L. Ruppert, Terrance L. Farris, Clayton, Mo., for appellees/cross-appellants.

Before ROSS, HENLEY and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges.


ROSS, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the right to use the name "Hodge" in marketing chile products. Jurisdiction exists by virtue of the Lanham Act. 15 U.S.C. § 1121.

The district court prepared two opinions, one of which is published at 575 F.Supp. 210 (D.Mo.1983). Hodge Chile Company appeals the district court's decision that KNA Food Distributors (KNA) is not infringing its federally registered "Hodge's" trademark...

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