Gucci America, Inc. v. Accents

MEMORANDUM ORDER

RAKOFF, District Judge.

In The Importance of Being Earnest, the hero Jack, who has been masquerading as a man named Ernest, reveals that as an infant he was left abandoned in “a hand-bag — a somewhat large, black leather hand-bag, with handles,” which in turn precipitates disclosure from his abandoner that Jack’s real name actually is Ernest — and all ends happily. 1 In the case at bar, it is the lineage of the handbags that is in issue. Defendants maintain that certain handbags alleged to be Gucci counterfeits are really overruns that Gucci’s own manufacturers sold into the…