Bunn-O-Matic Corp. v. Bunn Coffee Service, Inc.

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• holding that an agreement conveyed a trademark license despite the agreement's lack of an explicit quality control provision
• stating that grant of permission to use grantor’s trademark, retention of ownership, and grantor’s obligating itself to maintain quality standards are “the essential terms of a trademark license”
• “Bunn-NY lost any independent claim of right to the name when it signed the license.”
• “The likelihood of confusion exists as a matter of law if a licensee continues to use marks owned by the licensor after termination of the license.”

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