Legal Opinion
SAUL ZAENTZ COMPANY v. Wozniak Travel, Inc.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided July 29, 2008No. C 06-5421 MHPPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
MARILYN HALL PATEL, District Judge.
Defendant Wozniak Travel, Inc. (“Wozniak Travel”) has operated, since 1976, a Minnesota-based travel agency named “Hobbit Travel.” Plaintiff, Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises (“Tolkien Enterprises”), owns the right to use and license others to use marks related to novelist J.R.R. Tolkien’s books The Hobbit, first published in the United States in 1938, and its sequel The Lord of the Rings trilogy, first published in the United States in 1954, 1955, and 1956. The term “Hobbit” refers not only to the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s…
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