GUCCI AMERICA, INC. v. ACCENTS

No. 96 Civ. 9575(JSR).

994 F.Supp. 538 (1998)

GUCCI AMERICA, INC. and Chanel, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. ACCENTS; E. Kramer & Company d/b/a Accent on You; Ellen Kramer; Adele Kauff, Inc.; Richard Kauff; Jennifer Kauff; Triangle Trading, Inc. d/b/a Miami Duty Free Zone and Duty Free Zone; Duty Free Brokers Corp.; 1000 Scents, Inc.; Steven Facella a/k/a Steven Fichella; Craig Bennett; Joanna Fels; Windsor Marketing, Inc. a/k/a Windsor Trading; Felco, Inc. a/k/a Felco Bros. Inc. and Felco International Inc.; Consolidated Traders, Inc.; Menachem Fellig a/k/a Mendy Fellig and Max Fellig; Faygiel Fellig a/k/a Faye Fellig and Faygie Fellig; and John Does 1 through 20, Defendants.

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

February 23, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton Springut, Robert Tilewick Kalow, Springut & Bressler, New York City, for Plaintiffs.

Bruce Lederman, Lederman Abrahams Lederman & Zareff, L.L.P., Massapequa, NY, for Fellig Defendants.

Richard Saccocio, Richard M. Saccocio, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Triangle Defendants.

Allen Morganstern, Patricia Wilczynski Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, Garden City, NY, for Kauff Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

RAKOFF, District Judge.

The trial of this trademark counterfeiting case, scheduled to commence trial next week, presents some nice questions as to which of the parties' disputes are to be resolved by the jury and which by the Court.

The plaintiffs, Gucci America, Inc. and Chanel Inc., accuse the captioned defendants of trafficking in counterfeit trademarked handbags, in violation of the Lanham Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. §...

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