Pyrodyne Corporation v. Pyrotronics Corporation

847 F.2d 1398 57 USLW 2056 , 7 U.S.P.Q.2d 1082 PYRODYNE CORPORATION, a Washington corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. PYROTRONICS CORPORATION, a California corporation, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant. Nos. 87-3847, 87-4070. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 10, 1988. Decided June 1, 1988. Francis A. Utecht, Fulwider, Patton, Rieber, Lee & Utecht, Long Beach, Cal., for defendant-appellee-cross-appellant. James R. Uhler, Christensen, O'Connor, Johnson & Kindness, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiff-appellant-cross-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. Before TANG and CANBY, Circuit Judges, and THOMPSON, * District Judge. TANG, Circuit Judge: 1 Pyrodyne appeals the district court's denial of its motion for preliminary injunction to order Pyrotronics to cease infringing Pyrodyne's trade name, Red Devil Fireworks, in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Northern Idaho and Montana. Pyrotronics, in turn, appeals the district court's denial of its motion for preliminary injunction in the same action. The dispute concerns ownership of and rights to the name "Red Devil" as used in…