NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND COMMERCIAL REGULATION Volume 18 | Number 3 Article 7 Summer 1993 Lever Brothers Corp. v. United States: An Expansion of Trademark Protection beyond the Limits of K Mart Corp. v. Cartier, Inc. C. Dustin Tillman Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncilj Recommended Citation C. D. Tillman, Lever Brothers Corp. v. United States: An Expansion of Trademark Protection beyond the Limits of K Mart Corp. v. Cartier, Inc., 18 N.C. J. Int'l L. & Com. Reg. 685 (1992). Available at: http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncilj/vol18/iss3/7 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation by an authorized editor of Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Lever Brothers Corp. v. United States: An Expansion of Trademark Protection beyond the Limits of K Mart Corp. v. Cartier, Inc. Cover Page Footnote International Law; Commercial Law; Law This note is available in North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation: http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ ncilj/vol18/iss3/7 Lever Brothers Corp. v. United States: An Expansion of Trademark Protection Beyond the Limits of K Mart Corp. v. Cartier,Inc. I. Introduction In 1989, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C.) Circuit tentatively held in Lever Brothers Corp. v. United States I that section 133.21(c)(2) of the United States Customs Service regu- 3 lations2 was invalid with respect to section 42 of the Lanham Act.