The Original Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Company, Incorporated v. River Valley Cookies, Limited, Robert M. Sigel, Paula Sigel

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1992-09-04

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POSNER, Circuit Judge. This case arises from a squabble between a franchisor that we shall call the “Cookie Company” and the Sigels, who had a franchise to operate a Cookie Company store in a shopping mall in Aurora, Illinois. The company terminated the Sigels’ franchise but they continued to sell cookies under the company’s trademark, using batter purchased elsewhere after their supply of Cookie Company batter ran out. So t…

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