M.H. Segan Ltd. Partnership v. Hasbro, Inc.

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• holding that nearly identical waiver language “negates the existence of a legal relationship based on a ... confidential relationship”
• finding summary judgment inappropriate on the issue of substantial similarity between two toys, Big Frank and Frankenstuff
• “Through Knitwaves, the Second Circuit has recently reconfirmed that the more discerning ordinary observer test is not an invitation to dissect a work into its constituent elements, or features. The works as a whole must be compared to each other.”

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