Legal Opinion
Yarmuth-Dion, Inc., Peter Dion, Inc., and Peter Dion v. D'Ion Furs, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 22, 1987No. 180, Docket 87-7423PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
Yarmuth-Dion, Inc., Peter Dion, Inc., and Peter Dion (collectively Dion or Peter Dion) appeal from an April 21, 1987 judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Griesa, J.) dismissing their amended complaint against D’ion Furs, Inc. (D’ion Furs). The judgment was based on an oral decision rendered April 9,1987, in which Judge Griesa held that Peter Dion had failed to prove secondary meaning necessary to sustain a Lanham Act claim for false designation of origin. The trial court also dismissed Peter Dion’s New York state law…
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