RONSON ART METAL WORKS, INC. v. GIBSON LIGHTER MFG. CO.


283 A.D. 937 (1954)

Ronson Art Metal Works, Inc., Respondent, v. Gibson Lighter Mfg. Co. et al., Defendants, and George J. Manne, Doing Business as Gibson Lighter Mfg. Co., et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 25, 1954.


Per Curiam.

We are satisfied that there was such a combined copying of plaintiff's designs, slogans, legends and advertising art as to stimulate confusion and constitute unfair competition. This is so even though defendants were entitled to copy the product design and their primary purpose may have been to insinuate the idea into the public mind that a duplicate of plaintiff's established product was available for a fraction of the cost, rather than to palm...

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