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U.S. Second Circuit: Unauthorized Removal of Anticounterfeiting Devices From Otherwise Genuine Trademarked Products Actionable

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: Lexology, July 2, 2009.

Second Circuit rules that the unauthorized removal of anticounterfeiting devices from otherwise genuine trademarked products is actionable as trademark infringement
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
"In Zino Davidoff SA v. CVS Corp., No. 07-2872-CV (June 19, 2009), the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the sale of branded products from which a serial number applied for anticounterfeiting and quality control purposes has been removed constitutes trademark infringement under the Lanham Act."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on July 02, 2009 (boomark / email).