Art Line, Inc. v. Universal Design Collections, Inc.

OPINION AND ORDER

NORGLE, District Judge:

Before the court is the Motion of Plaintiff Art Line, Inc. For Preliminary Injunction. For the following reasons, the motion is granted.

I. BACKGROUND 1

Plaintiff, Art Line, Inc. (“Art Line”), and Defendant, Universal Design Collections, Inc. d/b/a Universal Statuary (“Universal”), are both in the business of producing indoor and outdoor statuary products which represents realistic animals. On August 11-14, 1996, Art Line debuted its entire new line of filled, naturalistic statuary animals (“Animals”) at the National Hardware Show held in Chicago,…