Chicago Designer Claims Copyright Infringement; FAO Schwarz Handed TRO in Federal Court.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2003 Cynthia Tripp-Kampf, president, Tripp Design, Ltd., today announced that in a ruling handed down in federal court, November 14, 2003, FAO FAO, n See Food and Agriculture Organization. Schwarz was stopped from shipping children's lunchboxes featured in their Christmas catalog and expected to arrive in Zany Brainy brain·y adj. brain·i·er, brain·i·est Informal Intelligent; smart. brain  i·ly adv. and FAO Schwarz stores early next week. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Tripp-Kampf, a Chicago-based product designer and brand specialist, she was awarded a Temporary Restraining Order temporary restraining order: see injunction. (TRO TRO - tail recursion optimisation ) by Federal District Court Judge David H. Coar, who found that Tripp-Kampf and her company, Tripp Design, Ltd., were likely to succeed in their claim that FAO Schwarz infringed on their copyrighted lunchbox design. The design was a key feature in the newly branded line of products designed by Tripp-Kampf. Further proceedings are scheduled. "The infringement was originally discovered by my eight-year-old daughter, Natalie, while she was paging through the FAO 2003 Christmas catalog," said Tripp-Kampf. Tripp-Kampf is responsible for the branding initiatives and new product development for multi-national and Fortune 500 clients in the areas of hospitality, technology and healthcare. |
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