Herbert Rosenthal Jewelry Corporation v. Honora Jewelry Co, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• copyright on a gold pin shaped like a turtle did not give the owner a right to exclude all others from manufacturing gold turtle pins
• protection given only to the “expression of the idea”
• “Since all turtles are created more or less along the same lines, appellant cannot, by obtaining a copyright upon one design of a turtle pin, exclude all others from manufacturing gold turtle pins on the ground that they are substantially similar in appearance.”
• a jeweled bee pin is an unprotectable idea
• reviewing award of summary judgment

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