Legal Opinion

Times Mirror Magazines, Inc. v. Field & Stream Licenses Co.

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided June 26, 2002No. Docket No. 01-7011PublishedCited by 42 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POOLER, Circuit Judge.

Times Mirror Magazines, Inc. (“TM”) owns and publishes Field & Stream Magazine. TM,1 and its predecessor in interest, the Columbia Broadcasting System (“CBS”), entered into a series of agreements with defendants to govern the use of the name Field & Stream as a trademark. At the core of this appeal lies TM’s contention that the agreements left TM with a residual common law right to use the mark in connection with all items associated with hunting and fishing. We conclude that no such residual right exists and that the parties’ relative rights to the mark are governed by…

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