Lol. It's funny this thread should get resurrected. Earlier today, I stumbled upon the post that I referred to while doing a completely unrelated search. And, now that I search for it, I can't find it.
Here is one post by Ray Winninger from rpg.net. In the post, he mentions how TSR granted a special license to Mayfair when it looked like TSR would lose their suit.
So, it turns out the posts that I saw were on both RPG.net and at ENWorld. Here is a liink to the ENWorld post from Ray Winninger regarding the suit from TSR
Below is a link to a followup to the above where he Ray explains that the second suit was over a claim of Mayfair violating their license with TSR and not for trademark infringement.