Application of Beatrice Foods Co. Application of Fairway Foods, Inc

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• right to enjoin another from use of the mark enforceable only in areas of current business use or probability of expansion
• “Rights appurtenant to the ownership of a federal trademark registration ... may be considered supplemental to those recognized at common law, stemming from ownership of a trademark.”
• “Rights of trademark ownership, for example, the right to enjoin another from use of the mark, must be based upon actual use and can be enforced only in areas of existing business influence____ [T]he Lanham Act did not alter this aspect of the prior law.”
• discussing the legislative history of the Lanham Act

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