Legal Opinion
Mode Art Jewelers Co. v. Expansion Jewelry Ltd.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 4, 1976No. 75 Civ. 519 (WCC)PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
CONNER, District Judge:
This is another of the seemingly inevitable struggles for choice of forum which bedevil the Courts in industrial property litigation, here a controversy over alleged infringement of ten registered copyrights on costume jewelry.
On February 4, 1975, Mode Art Jewelers Co. (Mode Art), a New York corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of such jewelry, brought this action for copyright infringement against Fashion High Creations, Inc. (Fashion High), the Arizona corporation which manufactured the accused jewelry and Expansion Jewelry Ltd.…
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