Legal Opinion
Segrets, Inc. v. Gillman Knitwear Co., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 27, 2000No. 99-1552PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This case involves a manufacturer that specializes in designer knock-offs or reinterpretations copying the designs of another manufacturer’s popular sweaters. Seg-rets Inc., a designer and manufacturer of women’s clothing, sued Gillman Knitwear Co., Inc., alleging that Gillman violated the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq., by producing sweaters that infringed Seg-rets’s copyrighted designs. The district court granted Segrets summary judgment on three issues: the validity of its copyrights, Gillman’s actual copying of Seg-rets’s designs, and infringement with respect…
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