The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners unanimously voted to rename Metropolitan Oakland International Airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport.
Meredith DelisoOfficials in Oakland, California, approved modifying the name of the city's airport to include "San Francisco," despite afrom the city of San Francisco, while also filing their own lawsuit against the neighboring city over the name-change dispute.
After announcing the proposed name change in late March, the board voted unanimously to modify the airport's name in a first reading vote on April 11. Leslie said the port then met with "dozens of community leaders and stakeholders" to hear their concerns over the change. Two days before Thursday's vote, which allowed the Port of Oakland to move forward with the renaming, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu "strongly" urged the Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners to reconsider their plans., he called on the commissioners to "instead engage in discussions with the City and others about a different name that would achieve the Port's objectives without infringing on the City's trademark and engendering consumer confusion and harm.
San Francisco has owned the U.S. federal trademark registration for the mark "San Francisco International Airport" with the first date of use in commerce in 1954, according to the city's lawsuit.
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