NORTH COAST INDUSTRIES v. JASON MAXWELL, INC.

No. 91-15142.

972 F.2d 1031 (1992)

NORTH COAST INDUSTRIES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JASON MAXWELL, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 6, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Michael Brucker, Steven M. Kipperman Law Corp., Oakland, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Michael Delikat, Baer, Marks & Upham, New York City, and Peter A. Wald, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellee.

Before: SCHROEDER, REINHARDT, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.


SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an entry of summary judgment in favor of the defendant in a copyright infringement action. The dispute is between two competing manufacturers of women's clothing. Plaintiff-appellant North Coast Industries has a copyright on the design in question. The design is a geometric arrangement of color blocks banded in heavy lines, used by the plaintiff on the front of pullover tops. Plaintiff filed this action for copyright...

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