Opinion ID: 2051720
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Commercial Federal's mark.

Text: Defendant Commercial Federal Bank began business in 1887 in Omaha, Nebraska. Since that time, Commercial Federal has been providing banking services in Omaha and surrounding communities, including cities in western Iowa. In 1972, Commercial Federal changed its name from Commercial Savings & Loan Association to Commercial Federal Savings & Loan and received a federal charter to that effect. In 1990, the name was changed again to its current form, Commercial Federal Bank. In 1987, Commercial Federal obtained a registration from the United States Trademark Office for the mark COMMERCIAL FEDERAL which it began using in 1972. Subsequently, in 1994, Commercial Federal obtained federal registration of the CF logo, which has been used at all times since then by Commercial Federal in its advertising, brochures, and signs in conjunction with the name Commercial Federal Bank or the mark Commercial Federal. In August 1995, Commercial Federal merged with Conservative Savings Bank, including its branch office in Harlan, Iowa, in Shelby County. As a result, Conservative Savings Bank ceased to exist and the Harlan branch name was changed to Commercial Federal Bank. Commercial Federal then began competing with plaintiff Commercial Savings for customers in Carroll County, as well as in Shelby, Audubon, and Crawford counties. On October 1, 1996, Commercial Federal merged with defendant Hawkeye Federal Savings Bank, which had its main office in Boone, Iowa, with branch offices in Carroll, Manning, Lake City, Madrid, and Ogden, Iowa. As a result of the merger, Hawkeye Federal Savings Bank ceased to exist and the names of all its branch banks were changed to Commercial Federal Bank. Commercial Federal Bank currently operates banks in Harlan, Carroll, Boone, Lake City, Manning, Madrid, and Ogden, Iowa, in plaintiff's eight-county trade area.