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041282P.pdf 01/04/2005 Everest Funds Mgt. v. Everest Capital
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 04-1282
District of Nebraska
Civil case - trademarks. Evidence was sufficient to support jury's
verdict that defendant's use of the Everest mark was not a Lanham Act
violation; jury instruction on likelihood of confusion was a fair and
adequate statement of the law; plaintiff was not entitled to judgment as a
matter of law on trademark dilution claim, as a reasonable jury could find
the mark was not famous in a relevant consumer market and had not
actually been diluted; reasonable jury could reject commercial
misrepresentation claims on the ground any misrepresentation was
inadvertent, did not deceive anyone and had not injured plaintiff.
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Chief Judge, with Wollman and Beam, Circuit Judge]