Landscape Forms, Inc. v. Columbia Cascade Company

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1997-05-16

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OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge. This appeal raises the difficult question of under what circumstances the law of trade dress appropriately protects industrial design. Those who would seek monopolistic protection for industrial design, but are unable to obtain a design patent, have had little success under the law of copyright even with the “conceptual separateness” gloss provided by…

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