YANKEE CANDLE CO. v. NEW ENGLAND CANDLE CO.

No. Civ.A. 96-30165-FHF.

14 F.Supp.2d 154 (1998)

THE YANKEE CANDLE COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff, v. NEW ENGLAND CANDLE COMPANY, INC., Henry Komosa, and Kristine Komosa, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

July 21, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary R. Bonzagni, Law Offices of Donald S. Holland, Longmeadow, MA, Donald S. Holland, Holland & Bonzagni, P.C., Longmeadow, MA, for Plaintiff.

Evan T. Lawson, J. Mark Dickison, Lawson & Weitzen, Boston, MA, Karen G. Jackson, Northampton, MA, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

FREEDMAN, Senior District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This dispute lit up when the plaintiff, The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. ("Yankee"), noticed that the defendants, New England Candle Company, Inc., and its owners Henry and Kristine Komosa (hereinafter collectively referred to as "New England"), had opened a retail candle store that possessed strikingly similar characteristics to its own stores. Yankee turned directly to...

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