GENERAL CONF. CORP. v. SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CH.

No. 88-2506.

887 F.2d 228 (1989)

GENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH; John R. Marik, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 5, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max A. Corbett, Annandale, Va., for defendants-appellants.

Peter N. Fowler of Lilienthal & Fowler, San Francisco, Cal., appeared and argued, and signed the brief on behalf of amici curiae, Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Ass'n, Gen. Ass'n of Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists, Universal Publishing Ass'n, and Laymen for Religious Liberty.

Lorraine H. Akiba, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HUG, SCHROEDER and CANBY, Circuit Judges.


CANBY, Circuit Judge:

Defendants Seventh-Day Adventist Congregational Church and John Marik appeal a judgment on the pleadings and the issuance of a permanent injunction against them in a trademark infringement action. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

BACKGROUND AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW

The General Conference Corporation of Seventh-Day Adventists sued the Seventh-Day Adventist Congregational Church, located in Kealakekua, Hawaii, and its...

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