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WINDSURFING INTERN., INC. v. FRED OSTERMANN GMBH

Nos. 81 Civ. 254 (MEL), 83 Civ. 1691 (MEL) and 83 Civ. 3774 (MEL).

613 F.Supp. 933 (1985)

WINDSURFING INTERNATIONAL, INC., Plaintiff, and James R. Drake, Intervenor-Plaintiff, v. FRED OSTERMANN GMBH, et al., Defendants. AMF INCORPORATED, Plaintiff, v. WINDSURFING INTERNATIONAL, INC., Defendant and James R. Drake, Intervenor-Defendant. BIC LEISURE PRODUCTS, INC., and Windglider Fred Ostermann, GMBH, Plaintiffs, v. WINDSURFING INTERNATIONAL, INC., Defendant and James R. Drake, Intervenor-Defendant. James R. DRAKE, Cross-Claimant, v. WINDSURFING INTERNATIONAL, INC., Cross-Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

As Amended October 24, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nilsson, Robbins, Dalgarn, Berliner, Carson & Wurst, Los Angeles, Cal., for Windsurfing Intern., Inc.; Harold E. Wurst, Los Angeles, Cal., David R. Francescani, Darby & Darby, New York City, of counsel.

Davis, Hoxie, Faithfull & Hapgood, New York City, for James R. Drake; James J. Foster, New York City, Spensely Horn Jubas & Lubitz, W. Robert Spensley, Richard H. Zaitlen, Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel.

Willian Brinks Olds Hofer Gilson & Lione, Indianapolis, Ind., for AMF Inc., David H. Badger, Indianapolis, Ind., Richard H. Compere, Chicago, Ill., William R. Golden, Jr., Rogers Hoge & Hills, New York City, of counsel.

Pennie & Edmonds, New York City, for BIC Leisure Products, Inc. and Windglider Fred Ostermann; Brian M. Poissant, Thomas F. Reddy, Jr., New York City, of counsel.

Curtis, Morris & Safford, New York City, for Freeboard Sailing, Inc. and Downwind Corp.; Pasquale A. Razzano, New York City, of counsel.

LASKER, District Judge.

At a social gathering in early 1967 two friends James Drake and Hoyle Schweitzer, then living in California, began discussing the idea of combining the sports of sailing and surfing to create a type of sailing surfboard. The requisite materials were collected in Drake's garage where a makeshift workshop was set up for production. By summer of that year the co-inventors were ready to "launch" their first "sailboard."1

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