NEW YORK — A federal judge has barred Toyota Motor Corp. from using the Lexus name for its new line of luxury cars on grounds that the name could infringe on the Lexis trademark used by Mead Data Central Inc. for its computerized data retrieval service.
The ruling Friday by U.S. District Judge David N. Edelstein was made in a lawsuit filed by Mead against the Japanese car maker and its U.S. affiliate, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc., Mead said in a statement today.
