Legal Opinion
Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 20, 2019No. 17-1657PublishedCited by 189 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kagan
*1657Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code enables a debtor to "reject any executory contract"-meaning a contract that neither party has finished performing. 11 U.S.C. § 365(a). The section further provides that a debtor's rejection of a contract under that authority "constitutes a breach of such contract." § 365(g).
Today we consider the meaning of those provisions in the context of a trademark licensing agreement. The question is whether the debtor-licensor's rejection of that contract deprives the licensee of its rights to use the trademark. We hold it does not. A rejection breaches a contract *1658but…
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