Affiliated Hospital Products, Inc. v. Merdel Game Manufacturing Company

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• finding consideration for settlement agreement in possibility, strongly intimated by the district judge, that game name CARROM invalid
• “ ‘After considerable performance, a slight breach which does not go “to the root” of the contract will not justify termination’ ”
• use of trademarks “KICK’ER” and “KIK-IT” allowed, albeit reluctantly, for similar tabletop soccer games
• \KICK'ER\ and \KIK-IT\ allowed for similar table-top soccer games
• “KICK’ER” and “KIK-IT” allowed for similar table-top soccer games
• copyright on rule book only protects arrangement of rules

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).