Panel Reinstates Unfair Competition Claim, Opens Door To Trade Dress Claim

( January 10, 2024, 11:13 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — A dispute over alleged knock-off coats was revived Jan. 9 by the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which said that although the owners of the fashion label Mackage cannot assert trade dress infringement and dilution by a defendant, their claim of common-law unfair competition was wrongly dismissed by a New York federal judge....