Legal Opinion
Versa Products Company, Inc. v. Bifold Company (Manufacturing) Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 15, 1995No. 94-5064PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
This is a trade dress infringement action in which plaintiff Versa Products Company, Inc. (“Versa”) contends that defendant Bifold Company (Manufacturing) Ltd. (“Bifold”) infringed the trade dress of Versa’s B-316 directional control valve, a device commonly used in control panels of offshore oil-drilling rigs to facilitate emergency shutdowns, by marketing its Domino Junior valve, which Versa maintains copies the product configuration of the B-816. 1 The action was brought under section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) (West Supp.1994),…
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