Legal Opinion
Osawa & Co. v. B & H PHOTO
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 27, 1984No. 83 Civ. 6874 (PNL)PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
LEVAL, District Judge.
The owner of U.S. trademarks pertaining to goods of foreign manufacture seeks by this action to enjoin others from independently importing and dealing in goods of the same manufacture, bearing the same marks lawfully applied abroad by the foreign owner of the marks. The commerce against which this action is directed is colloquially named the “grey market”.
Plaintiff Osawa & Company, a Delaware corporation, is the registered owner of United States trademark rights for the Mamiya marks, 1 which are used on high quality medium-format photographic equipment…
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