ORIG. GR. AM. CHOC. CHIP COOKIE v. RIVER VALLEY

No. 91-3312.

970 F.2d 273 (1992)

The ORIGINAL GREAT AMERICAN CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE COMPANY, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. RIVER VALLEY COOKIES, LIMITED, Robert M. SIGEL, Paula Sigel, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 20, 1992.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied September 4, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rene A. Torrado, Jr., Karen L. Pszanka-Layng, Charlotte M. Gibberman, Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, Chicago, Ill., John T. Marshall (argued), Carol E. Kirby, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert Boehm, Konstantinos Armiros (argued), Gary I. Blackman, Boehm & Pearlstein, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUDAHY, POSNER, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 4, 1992.

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...

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