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Platinum Products Corporation v. Berthold, Novick

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
May 16, 1939
21 N.E.2d 520 (N.Y. 1939)

Summary

In Platinum Products Corp. v. Berthold (supra) the evidence showed that before the defendant began to distribute the same article which plaintiff manufactured and sold, the plaintiff had built up a national reputation and good will and sold its product to representative department stores throughout the country.

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Opinion

Argued April 12, 1939

Decided May 16, 1939

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department.

I. Maurice Wormser, Maurice Iserman and Joseph Goldberg for appellant.

Joseph Lorenz and Abraham M. Lowenthal for respondents.


Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: CRANE, Ch. J., LEHMAN, O'BRIEN, HUBBS, LOUGHRAN, FINCH and RIPPEY, JJ.


Summaries of

Platinum Products Corporation v. Berthold, Novick

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
May 16, 1939
21 N.E.2d 520 (N.Y. 1939)

In Platinum Products Corp. v. Berthold (supra) the evidence showed that before the defendant began to distribute the same article which plaintiff manufactured and sold, the plaintiff had built up a national reputation and good will and sold its product to representative department stores throughout the country.

Summary of this case from Michel Cosmetics, Inc., v. Tsirkas
Case details for

Platinum Products Corporation v. Berthold, Novick

Case Details

Full title:PLATINUM PRODUCTS CORPORATION et al., Respondents, v. RICHARD E. BERTHOLD…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: May 16, 1939

Citations

21 N.E.2d 520 (N.Y. 1939)
21 N.E.2d 520

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