Legal Opinion
Cliffs Notes, Inc. v. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 22, 1989No. 389, Docket 89-7774PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:
Defendant Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. appeals from an order, dated August 2, 1989, of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Shirley Wohl Kram, J., enjoining defendant-appellant from distributing Spy Notes, a parody of the Cliffs Notes series of paperback books published by plaintiff-appellee Cliffs Notes, Inc. 1 This appeal raises basic questions over application of trademark law to an allegedly infringing literary parody. For reasons given below, we vacate the injunction.
Background
The appeal involves three principals,…
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