Sports merchandise seller Fanatics Inc. prevailed over a man’s claim that it ripped off his idea of a commemorative hockey puck with a cavity containing melted ice from notable hockey games.
William Grondin failed to identify a non-utilitarian, non-commonplace feature of his “Slice of the Ice” copyright, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said. After giving Grondin a chance to fix his complaint in a previous dismissal, Judge Gene E.K. Pratter’s ruling Friday dismissed the amended version offered no and offered no chance to try again.
Pratter’s ruling noted that while comparing the substantial similarity ...