Legal Opinion
Deere & Company v. Mtd Products, Inc., Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 21, 1994No. 858, Dockets 94-7799, 94-7863PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON 0. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:
This appeal in a trademark case presents a rarely litigated issue likely to recur with increasing frequency in this era of head-to-head comparative advertising. The precise issue, arising under the New York anti-dilution statute, N.Y.Gen.Bus.Law § 368-d (McKinney 1984), is whether an advertiser may depict an altered form of a competitor’s trademark to identify the competitor’s product in a comparative ad. The issue arises on an appeal by defendant-appellant MTD Products, Inc. (“MTD”) from the August 9, 1994, order of the United States District Court for the Southern…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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- Allied Maintenance Corp. v. Allied Mechanical Trades, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1977
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3Cited by155 opinions
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