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ANHEUSER-BUSCH, INC. v. L & L WINGS, INC.

Nos. 91-3039, 91-3043.

962 F.2d 316 (1992)

ANHEUSER-BUSCH, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. L & L WINGS, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellant, and Venture Marketing, Incorporated; Sunburst Screen Printing, Defendants. ANHEUSER-BUSCH, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. VENTURE MARKETING, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellant, and L & L Wings, Incorporated; Sunburst Screen Printing, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 10, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cort Flint, Jr., Cort Flint, P.A., Greenville, S.C., argued, for defendants-appellants; Peter D. Hyman, The Hyman Law Firm, Florence, S.C., for defendant-appellant L & L Wings; Robert J. Reeves, Collins & Lacy, Columbia, S.C., for defendant-appellant Venture Marketing, on brief.

Floyd A. Gibson, Bell, Seltzer, Park & Gibson, Charlotte, N.C., argued, for plaintiff-appellee; John H. Thomas, William M. Atkinson, Charlotte, N.C., John E. Cuttino, Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney, Columbia, S.C., Richard W. Renner, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., St. Louis, Mo., on brief.

Before POWELL, Associate Justice (Retired), United States Supreme Court, sitting by designation, and WILKINSON and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

In this case, plaintiff Anheuser-Busch sued defendants for selling souvenir T-shirts that plaintiff claimed infringed its Budweiser beer trademarks. The jury returned a verdict in favor of defendants, finding that defendants' T-shirt design did not create a likelihood of consumer confusion, but the district judge granted plaintiff's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. We reverse. The record reveals sufficient...

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