# Standard & Poor's Corporation, Inc. v. Commodity Exchange, Inc.

> Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · June 29, 1982 · 683 F.2d 704

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9469476

## Case

- **Full name:** STANDARD & POOR’S CORPORATION, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. COMMODITY EXCHANGE, INC., Defendant-Appellant
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- **Decided:** June 29, 1982
- **Citations:** 683 F.2d 704; 216 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 841; 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 17835
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Knapp
- **Judges:** Knapp, Newman, Pierce
- **Cited by:** 148 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that Commodity Exchange’s proposed “Comex 500 Stock Index” violated the Lanham Act by tending to cause consumers to confuse the Comex 500 Stock Index and the Standard & Poor 500 Index
- noting that “[i]n the preliminary injunction context [of a trademark action], a showing of likelihood of confusion as to source or sponsorship establishes the requisite likelihood of success on the merits as well as risk of irreparable harm”

## Opinion text

WHITMAN KNAPP, District Judge,
sitting by designation (concurring):
I concur in the result for the reasons expressed by Judge Newman.

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