SODIMA v. INTERNATIONAL YOGURT CO., INC.

Civ. No. 86-706-PA.

662 F.Supp. 839 (1987)

SOCIETE DE DEVELOPMENTS ET D'INNOVATIONS DES MARCHES AGRICOLES ET ALIMENTAIRES-SODIMA-UNION DE COOPERATIVES AGRICOLES and General Mills Products Corp. and Yoplait USA, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. INTERNATIONAL YOGURT CO., INC., and Global Gourmet, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Oregon.

June 15, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Pierre Kolisch, Peter E. Heuser, Robert D. Varitz, Kolisch, Hartwell & Dickinson, Portland, Or., Leslie Bertagnolli, Martin R. Greenstein, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Daniel P. Chernoff, J. Peter Staples, Chernoff, Vilhauer, McClung & Stenzel, Portland, Or., for defendants.


OPINION

PANNER, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs SODIMA, General Mills Products Corp. (General Mills), and Yoplait USA, Inc. bring this action for infringement of their federally registered trademarks YOPLAIT and YOCREME. Defendants International Yogurt, Inc. and Global Gourmet, Inc. have been using the name YOCREAM and 800-YO CREAM. They deny any likelihood of confusion between YOPLAIT and YOCREAM, challenge plaintiffs' YOCREME mark as void, and counterclaim for...

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