Metro Gets Injunction Against Rival's Use of Name
By AAN Staff
july 10, 2002 09:58 am
Dan Pulcrano, publisher of Metro Silicon Valley, says he's never "seen someone so blatantly try and enter a market by
expropriating a trademark and associating it with a knockoff product as we
have seen with the current 'SurfMetro/The Wave' folks." Federal Judge Claudia
Wilken has issued a preliminary injunction against SurfMet Inc. barring them from using the Metro
name on their publication and Web site. Wilken told SurfMet that she may allow them to use the mark "if you want to use it to sell toothbrushes in Des Moines—maybe."