[Jewelry making - Article 00000] - Re: [Orchid] Curt of appeals upholds designer rights

[Peter W . Rowe]

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    Kinda fun "deja vu" to see this note, and i'm not surprised.  Mr.
    Kieselstein-cord seems to jog a memory that he's somewhat aggressive
    in pursuing copyright infringement.  And, to make it pertinent, I
    recall about a decade ago, a casting company who'd been doing work
    for a local jewelry store.  for a short time they'd been agreeing to
    make rubber molds of Kieselstein's belt buckles, and cast the
    results, albeit after burning off the signatures in the rubber. Not
    very honorable, and the caster rather quickly decided to turn away
    such requests, even though it risked loosing a somewhat substantial
    client.  The decision was even clearer when they realized that the
    store had been going to the local Macy's department store, buying the
    Kieselstein buckles at retail, having them molded, and then, get
    this, were refinishing the things, putting the labels back on, and
    returning them for credit to Macy's!   I later heard that the store
    owner, when he decided to knock these things off like this, also put
    ten thousand bucks aside for possible legal costs just in case he
    got caught and sued over the practice.  I don't know if he ever did,
    but he was enough of a slimeball that I rather hope that he didn't
    get to keep that ten grand untouched for too long... 

Peter



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