Oleg Cassini, Serta sue each other over trademark rights
Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, December 2, 2011
NEW YORK — Oleg Cassini Inc. is suing Serta Inc. and JC Penney Co. in federal court for trademark infringement claiming the retailer and mattress maker used its name without authorization, Bloomberg reports.
Oleg Cassini is a New York-based company named for the famous fashion designer with ventures in apparel and furnishings industries, the story said.
The suit accuses Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based Serta and JCPenney of advertising Cassini-branded mattresses without consent and seeks to stop the practice and damages.
The story added that Serta filed a suit three weeks ago in Chicago to seek a court ruling that the company doesn't infringe on Oleg Cassini marks. JCPenney, based in Plano, Tex., isn't a party to that suit.
The complaint added that Serta dropped the name from the JC Penney line and that several of its products, including the Cassini line, take their names from an astronomy theme. Giovanni Domenico Cassini was a 17th Century Italian-French astronomer.
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