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This trademark infringement decision shows why every company, no matter how large or small, must register their trademarks and service marks at the earliest opportunity. The well-known Dan Tana’s restaurant in Los Angeles did not and could not stop a johhny come lately Dantanna’s in Atlanta. Dan Tana’s (I’ve been and its is amazing; you [...]

“[d]ilution isn’t confusion; quite the contrary. Dilution occurs when consumers form new and different associations with the plaintiff’s mark. ‘Even if no one suspects that the maker of analgesics has entered into the snowboard business, the Tylenol mark will now bring to mind two products, not one.’”