San Francisco slams Oakland with lawsuit over airport name change [Video]

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The City of San Francisco is not happy with the City of Oakland. On Thursday, SF City Attorney David Chiu’s office slapped Oakland with a lawsuit for changing Oakland International Airport’s name.

The airport is poised to be re-named “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport,” which SF attorneys say is a “false designation of origin.”

The lawsuit states, “The Metropolitan Oakland International Airport seeks to increase passengers and profits by rushing to unlawfully incorporate San Francisco International Airport’s (SFO) trademarked name into its own. Oakland Airport’s actions ignore SFO’s longstanding protected mark, brand, and identity, violate federal and state intellectual property law, and disregard the legal infringement and consumer confusion its actions create. Oakland Airport’s hasty and unnecessary efforts and refusal to engage in discussions of alternative names have left the City and County of San Francisco no choice but to bring this complaint against Defendant …