Legal Opinion
Guggenheimer v. Ginzburg
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 15, 1977PublishedCited by 1,215 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Cooke, J.
Noah Webster, whose name in this country became synonymous with the word dictionary, completed his "American Dictionary of the English Language” about a century and a half before this controversy involving defendant’s advertising of a volume entitled "Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language”.
In early 1975, defendant filed in the County Clerk’s Office of New York County a certificate of conducting business under the name of "The Webster’s Dictionary Company”. His subsequent commercial announcements in various well-known publications brought forth…
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