You don’t see a trademark infringement action in the Business Court every day, let alone a TRO decision, but a case with both came along last Friday in SCI Carolina Funeral Services, LLC v. McEwen Ellington Funeral Services, Inc.  Moreover, this was a common law trademark case, with no federal registration — or even a state registration — involved.

The Defendants had previously operated funeral homes under the McEwen name in the Charlotte, North Carolina area.  In 1986, they sold those funeral homes, and their trademarks and trade names, to…

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