L.L. BEAN, INC. v. DRAKE PUB., INC.

Civ. No. 84-0305 P.

625 F.Supp. 1531 (1986)

L.L. BEAN, INC., Plaintiff, v. DRAKE PUBLISHING, INC., Gloria Leonard, Louis Montesano, Nina Malkin, Linda Francischelli, Kevin Goodman, Kenneth Kimmel, Larry Graver, Arnold Held, Bruce Jacobsen, L.E. Goodman, Richard Crespo, Marty Puntus, Jerry Levine, Susan Ercolano, Yamael Bonheur, and Joy Bonheur, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Maine.

January 16, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George S. Isaacson, Alfred C. Frawley, Brann & Isaacson, Lewiston, Me., David Wolf, Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

Elliott L. Epstein, Isaacson, Hark & Epstein, Lewiston, Me., Norman S. Beier, Lawrence E. Abelman, Abelman, Frayne, Rezac & Schwab, New York City, for defendants.


ORDER ON PARTIES' CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

GENE CARTER, District Judge.

Plaintiff owns the registered trademarks "Bean," "Bean's" and "L.L. Bean" and uses them in its mail order catalog for marketing sporting goods and wearing apparel. Defendants publish High Society, a magazine which describes itself as providing erotic entertainment. At pages 36 and 37 of the October 1984 issue of High Society, there is material identified as "L...

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