Judge Sets Limits In Polo Competition

Polo Magazine can keep its name for now - as long as it takes several steps to distance itself from designer Ralph Lauren’s Polo products line, a federal magistrate ruled.

Disclaimers must appear on the magazine’s cover, masthead and table of contents page under a preliminary injunction granted to Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. last week.

The injunction will remain in effect until after a trial scheduled for late this year or early 1999.

U.S. Magistrate Mary Milloy found that recent format changes of the U.S. Polo Association’s official magazine have made it less a sporting periodical and more a lifestyle publication that could infringe on Lauren’s name.