JOINT STOCK SOC. v. HEUBLEIN, INC.

Civil Action No. 95-749-RRM.

936 F.Supp. 177 (1996)

The JOINT STOCK SOCIETY "TRADE HOUSE OF DESCENDANTS OF PETER SMIRNOFF, OFFICIAL PURVEYOR TO THE IMPERIAL COURT" and The Russian American Spirits Company, Plaintiffs, v. HEUBLEIN, INC. and International Distillers & Vintners Ltd., Defendants. HEUBLEIN, INC., Third-Party Plaintiff, v. William N. WALKER and Jerome S. Mann, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

August 2, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Josy W. Ingersoll, James P. Hughes and John P. Shaw, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, DE; Maxim H. Waldbaum, Claudia Cantarella, and Zuan-Thao Nguyen, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Allan M. Terrell, Francis DiGiovanni and Jeffrey L. Moyer, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE; Stephen R. Lang, Paul Dennis Connuck, Patricia Anne Kuhn, and Adina O. Broder, Whitman, Breed, Abbott & Morgan, New York City, for defendants.


OPINION

McKELVIE, District Judge.

This is a trademark and unfair competition case. Plaintiff The Joint Stock Society "Trade House of Descendants of Peter Smirnoff, Official Purveyor to the Imperial Court" (the "Society") is a Russian corporate entity with its principal place of business in Moscow. Plaintiff The Russian American Spirits Company ("RASCO") is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Connecticut. Defendant Heublein, Inc...

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