Legal Opinion
WMS Gaming Inc. v. WPC Productions Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 16, 2008No. 07-3585PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves a trademark-infringement dispute between gaming companies. It began when WMS Gaming, Inc. (“WMS”), sued WPC Productions Ltd. and its parent corporation, PartyGaming PLC (collectively, “PartyGaming” or “the defendants”), for PartyGaming’s unapologetic infringement of WMS’s registered trademarks JACKPOT PARTY and SUPER JACKPOT PARTY. PartyGaming is based in Gibraltar, but the electronic gaming services that it provides span the globe. After several failed attempts to persuade PartyGaming voluntarily to cease its infringing uses of WMS’s marks, WMS filed…
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