A newly reopened riverboat casino in Mississippi was sued Tuesday over allegations its name infringes on trademarks owned by Las Vegas-based Station Casinos.
A lawsuit alleging trademark infringement was filed in U.S. District Court for Nevada by a Station Casinos intellectual property holding company against the owner of Grand Station Hotel & Casino in Vicksburg, Miss.
Station, which owns or manages 18 locals casinos in the Las Vegas area and has Indian casino deals elsewhere, charged in the lawsuit that the Grand Station name is confusingly similar to the Station trademarks and name that date to 1983.
"Defendant was and is attempting to trade off the goodwill associated with plaintiff’s Station Casinos mark and Station marks," charged the lawsuit, filed by attorneys with the Las Vegas office of the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP.
The lawsuit seeks an injunction barring the Mississippi property from using the Grand Station name, disgorgement of profits earned by use of that name and compensatory and punitive damages.
A request for comment was placed with Grand Station.
The defendant in the lawsuit is Delta Investments & Development LLC.
That company purchased the old Horizon Vicksburg Casino in December from Tropicana Entertainment Inc. of Las Vegas, closed the property in March for renovations and then reopened it with the new Grand Station name on June 2, the lawsuit says.