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BURGESS v. COCA-COLA CO.

No. A00A0810.

536 S.E.2d 764 (2000)

245 Ga. App. 206

BURGESS v. COCA-COLA COMPANY.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied July 17, 2000.

Certiorari Denied October 27, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield, Knowles & Devine, Robert E. Shields, Kenneth S. Canfield, Kilpatrick Stockton, Joseph M. Beck, George W. Austin III, Charles Henn, Jr., Robert Altman, Atlanta, for appellant.

King & Spalding, Louis N. Jameson, Courtland L. Reichman, Joseph B. Haynes, Elizabeth F. Johnson, Atlanta, for appellee.

ELLINGTON, Judge.

Robert L. Burgess sued The Coca-Cola Company ("Coca-Cola") for allegedly taking his creative ideas and using them in a commercial that featured anthropomorphic polar bears drinking Coca-Cola. Burgess sought recovery under theories of misappropriation of ideas, breach of express and implied contract, breach of a confidential relationship, unjust enrichment, quantum meruit, and promissory estoppel. After...

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