Legal Opinion
My-T Fine Corporation v. Samuels
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 13, 1934No. 189PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff is the manufacturer of a confection of chocolate and sugar, used in making a kind of pudding, and sold in small cardboard boxes. The suit, which is founded upon diversity of citizenship, is to protect its make-up which the defendant is alleged to have copied. The boxes are about three and a ba¡£ inej^es high, three inches wide, and an inch and a half thick; they contain four ounces of the confection. The plaintiff’s pred-eeessor put out the earliest box in 1915 ; on its front were the words, “My-T-Fine,” printed in red; below, a black circle with a picture…
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