Peel & Company Inc v. Rug Market

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff raised a triable issue of access as to whether its rug design “was widely disseminated among those involved in the United States rug trade”
• holding that plaintiff rug wholesaler had raised genuine issue as to whether its designer rug “was widely disseminated among those involved in the United States rug trade”
• finding genuine issue of material fact on substantial similarity where plaintiff claimed that differences between two rugs were “relatively small” and “consistent with shortcuts taken to make a cheap copy”
• finding genuine issue of material fact on substan- tial similarity where plaintiff claimed that differences between two rugs were “relatively small” and “consistent with short- cuts taken to make a cheap copy”
• substantial similarity is to be determined “without any aid or suggestion or critical analysis by others”
• “A fact issue is material if its resolution could affect the outcome of the action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).