Legal Opinion
The Original Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Company, Incorporated v. River Valley Cookies, Limited, Robert M. Sigel, Paula Sigel
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 4, 1992No. 91-3312PublishedCited by 159 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This case arises from a squabble between a franchisor that we shall call the “Cookie Company” and the Sigels, who had a franchise to operate a Cookie Company store in a shopping mall in Aurora, Illinois. The company terminated the Sigels’ franchise but they continued to sell cookies under the company’s trademark, using batter purchased elsewhere after their supply of Cookie Company batter ran out. So the company sued them (and their corporate entity) to enjoin their violating the Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1051 et seq., and moved for a preliminary injunction. The Sigels…
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