COUNTRY MUT. INS. v. AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FED.

No. 88-2892.

876 F.2d 599 (1989)

COUNTRY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FEDERATION and American Agricultural Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 9, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Fifer, Scott F. Turow, Patricia W. Hatamyar, Sonnenschein, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, Ill., Jerome Weiss, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Michael R. Feagley, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., Richard J. Favretto and Kathy A. Oberly, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before WOOD, Jr., EASTERBROOK, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Who owns the trademark FARM BUREAU INSURANCE? The American Farm Bureau Federation believes that it does. The Federation is the national organization of many groups called Farm Bureaus. Until recently, however, the mark was registered to the American Agricultural Insurance Company, a reinsurer owned by other agricultural insurers that licensed its shareholders to sell FARM BUREAU INSURANCE. The...

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