Legal Opinion
Mindgames, Inc. v. Western Publishing Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 22, 2000No. 98-1879PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This is a diversity suit for breach of contract, governed by Arkansas law because of a choice of law provision in the contract. The plaintiff, MindGames, was formed in March of 1988 by Larry Blackwell to manufacture and sell an adult board game, “Clever Endeavor,” that he had invented. The first games were shipped in the fall of 1989 and by the end of the year, 75 days later, 30,000 had been sold. In March of 1990, MindGames licensed the game to the defendant, Western, a major marketer of games. Western had marketed the very successful adult board games “Trivial Pursuit”…
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