By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC-Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN NY Mag
SDNY COURTHOUSE, May 4 – Hermes has sued Mason Rothschild for using its Hermes Birkin name to market an NFT, METABIRKINS. Just added "meta" changes nothing, it says.
On April 8, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein held a proceeding. Inner City Press covered it.
Judge Gorenstein said that all fact discovery must be completed by August 9.
The parties say a trial would take five days.
On May 4, after the case was reassigned from Judge Alison J. Nathan, now on the Second Circuit, to Judge Jed S. Rakoff, an oral argument was held by Judge Rakoff. Inner City Press covered it. The defendant argued that its products are art. The parties filed a plan with a November 4 trial ready date.
The case is Hermes International et al v. Rothschild, 22-cv-384 (Rakoff / Gorenstein)
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