This was a trademark infringement case brought against a Reising client. The plaintiff complained that our client was unfairly trading on the plaintiff's good will in its name for a golf course. The plaintiff had a facility in Illinois that included a golf course. Our client operated a golf course in Michigan.
Reising Lawyers successfully defended our client against the plaintiff's effort to get a preliminary injunction, which would have forced
our client to immediately stop using the Pheasant Run name for its golf course. We then counseled our client to make a nominal one-time license payment to the plaintiff, which settled the case. The plaintiff permitted our client to continue using the name.
For more information, please e-mail Mr. Rick Hoffmann at hoffmann@reising.com, or call him at (248) 689-3500.