A federal judge has sided with San Francisco over Oakland in a legal dispute over a name change to Oakland’s airport.

The Port of Oakland earlier this year approved changing the city’s airport name to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, prompting San Francisco’s city attorney in September to ask for a preliminary injunction to halt the name change, saying it infringed on their trademark for San Francisco International Airport and confused travelers.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.