· 7/7/1982
Greenlon, Inc. of Cincinnati v. Greenlawn, Inc.
Citations
- 542 F. Supp. 890
- 217 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 790
- 1982 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14562
How courts have described this case
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- requiring transferor to give up some right to the business for transferee of trademark to assume transfer- or’s period of laches
- stating that while “no tangible assets must be transferred to the assignee to validate the assignment of a mark,” the assignment was invalid because the assignor did not transfer any part of his business when he effected the assignment and received a license back
- discussing cases where assignor continued use in order to establish converse proposition
- assignment invalid when assignor continued to operate own business using mark concurrently with geographically remote use by assignee
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Judges: Spiegel
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