Legal Opinion
Polar Bear Productions, Inc. v. Timex Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 3, 2004No. Nos. 03-35188, 03-35245PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
This intellectual property case pits the sport of extreme kayaking against the iconic American timepiece, Timex. In an effort to update its image, Timex Corporation (“Timex”) arranged with Polar Bear Productions (“Polar Bear”) to produce film footage featuring some of the stars of whitewater kayaking, paddling through exotic locales in North and South America and using equipment bearing the Timex logo. ■ The promotion was so popular with Timex that it just kept on ticking1, and continued using the footage well beyond any permission to do so. The result is a…
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