Legal Opinion
Anti-Monopoly, Inc. v. General Mills Fun Group, Inc.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided May 11, 1981No. C-74-0529 SWPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER ON REMAND
SPENCER WILLIAMS, District Judge.
Plaintiff Anti-Monopoly, Inc., a California corporation which has engaged in the business of selling a board game it calls ANTI-MONOPOLY, brought this action challenging the validity and enforceability of defendant’s MONOPOLY game trademark. After a trial before this court, a judgment was granted declaring the MONOPOLY trademark valid and enforceable, and that Anti-Monopoly’s use of the name ANTI-MONOPOLY constituted an infringement thereof. On appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the appellate court reversed and remanded to…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Bayer Co. v. United Drug Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1921
- Surgicenters of America, Inc., an Arizona Corporation v. Medical Dental Surgeries, Co., an Oregon Corporation Dba Medical Dental SurgicentersCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1979
- Anti-Monopoly, Inc. v. General Mills Fun GroupCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1979
- Selchow & Righter Company v. McGraw Book CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Anti-Monopoly, Inc., and Counter-Defendant-Appellant v. General Mills Fun Group, Inc., and Counter-Claimant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
- Anti-Monopoly, Inc. v. General Mills, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
- Anti-Monopoly, Inc. v. General Mills, Inc., Anti-Monopoly, Inc. v. General Mills, Inc., and General Mills Fun Group, Inc., Corporations, and Smeets en Schipper Spellen, B. v. a Corporation, as Co-ConspiratorCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982