§ 333.54 — Threatened Use May Be Restrained
Plain-Language Summary
When someone is using or threatening to use the Minnesota Zoo's name, trademark, or any confusingly similar mark without authorization, the Minnesota Zoological Board can go to court to get an injunction to stop it. The court can issue an order even before anyone has actually been misled or deceived by the unauthorized use.
333.54 THREATENED USE MAY BE RESTRAINED.
When there is an actual or threatened violation of section 333.53, an application may be made to a court having jurisdiction to enjoin and restrain the actual or threatened violation; and if it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant is in fact using or threatening to use the name “Minnesota Zoological Garden” or the trademark thereof or any other name or mark confusingly similar, or any other name, mark, logo, emblem, insignia or badge, designation, or distinguishing descriptive word or phrase used by the Minnesota Zoological Board in carrying out its purposes relating to Minnesota Zoological Garden or confusingly similar to any other name, mark, logo, emblem, insignia or badge, designation, or distinguishing descriptive word or phrase used by the Minnesota Zoological Board in carrying out its purposes relating to the Minnesota Zoological Garden, the court may enjoin and restrain the actual or threatened violation without requiring proof that any person has in fact been misled or deceived thereby.
History:
History: History:
1980 c 433 s 3