Legal Opinion
Thoip v. WALT DISNEY COMPANY
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 13, 2010No. 08 Civ. 6823 (SAS)PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge:
I. INTRODUCTION
THOIP claims rights to a family of unregistered trademarks stemming from a collection of children’s books featuring the “Mr. Men” and “Little Miss” (“MMLM”) cartoon characters. Under the Lanham Act and the common law, THOIP alleges that its family of marks was infringed by two lines of T-shirts from The Walt Disney Company, Disney Consumer Products, Inc., and Disney Destinations, LLC (collectively “Disney”). The Disney shirts are “undeniably alike” a line of THOIP T-shirts featuring the marks at issue here, 1 except that the…
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