ST. LOUIS — NorthSide Regeneration's small North City hospital can keep its name, a judge ruled Aug. 30, dismissing a lawsuit from a nurses alumni association that alleged the use of Homer G. Phillips constituted a trademark violation.
The Homer G. Phillips Nurses' Alumni Inc., representing alumni of the former Homer G. Phillips nursing school in North City, whose hospital closed in 1979, filed the lawsuit last year in St. Louis County Circuit Court. It said NorthSide's hospital engaged in trademark infringement.
But Judge Heather Cunningham wrote in a ruling that "the chance an ordinary consumer would confuse an alumni association for a hospital is low, and it is unlikely that Defendant acted in a way that deceived consumers for this very reason."
Cunningham granted a NorthSide entity's motion for summary judgment in the case, dismissing it.
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