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SICILIA DI R. BIEBOW & CO. v. COX

No. 82-1443.

732 F.2d 417 (1984)

SICILIA DI R. BIEBOW & CO., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ronald C. COX and Sales U.S.A., Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 18, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herndon & Foxman, Dallas, Tex., Stephen Schnitzer, Livingston, N.J., Morris M. Schnitzer, Newark, N.J., for plaintiff-appellant.

Hubbard, Thurman, Turner, Tucker & Glaser, L. Dan Tucker, Robert W. Turner, Dallas, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before REAVLEY, RANDALL and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

In this trade dress infringement case, we must determine the extent to which section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) (1982),1 incorporates the common law doctrine of functionality. See Inwood Laboratories v. Ives Laboratories, 456 U.S. 844, 857 n. 20, 102 S.Ct. 2182, 2190 n. 20, 72 L.Ed.2d 606 (1982). Stated simply, "functionality" privileges the copying of...

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