Guggenheimer v. Ginzburg

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1977-12-15

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OPINION OF THE COURT Cooke, J. Noah Webster, whose name in this country became synonymous with the word dictionary, completed his "American Dictionary of the English Language” about a century and a half before this controversy involving defendant’s advertising of a volume entitled "Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language”. In early 1975, defendant filed in the County Cler…

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