ARIEL INVESTMENTS v. ARIEL CAPITAL ADVISORS

Nos. 17-1516 & 17-2645.

881 F.3d 520 (2018)

ARIEL INVESTMENTS, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ARIEL CAPITAL ADVISORS LLC, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 31, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Gollwitzer, III , Michael David Bess , Luke DeMarte , Larry Saret , Attorneys, MICHAEL BEST & FRIEDRICH LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Christopher Paul Bray , Attorney, CHRISTOPHER P. BRAY ASSOCIATES LLC, Naples, FL, Brian T. Noack , Attorney, WOLEK & NOACK, Chicago, IL, Defendant-Appellant.

Before Flaum, Easterbrook, and Barrett, Circuit Judges.


Ariel Investments and Ariel Capital Advisors both manage money for affluent clients. Ariel Investments has been using its name since 1983 and Ariel Capital only since 2014. After a bench trial in this suit under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1114, 1125(a), the district court found that Ariel Capital is infringing...

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