Court rules firm may have committed malicious prosecution by arguing trademark rights in Princess Diana name
Thursday, May 20th, 2010Franklin Mint Company v. Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP (2010) 184 Cal.App.4th 313
Court of Appeal says that the defendant lawfirm’s claims based on trademark rights in the name Princess Diana lacked probable cause under a malicious prosecution anaylsis because her name is so clearly descriptively associated with her as a person that the lawfirm should never have argued her name acted as a trademark for her charitable services.
