Sasson Jeans, Inc. v. Sasson Jeans, L.A., Inc

In Sasson Jeans, Inc. v. Sasson Jeans, L.A., Inc. (S.D.N.Y. 1986) 632 F.Supp. 1525, plaintiff Sasson Jeans and its president Paul Guez terminated a license agreement with defendants Sasson Jeans, L.A. and its officers Hubert Abraham Guez and Gerard Guez, and ordered the defendants "to cease all use of the Sasson trademarks" and to make no shipments of jeans without Paul Guez's approval. 49 (Id. at p. 1526.) Paul claimed that his brothers had made an "unauthorized sale of 'goods in process,'" and that Abraham (aka Hubert) and Gerard were "flooding the market with discount jeans without obtaining prior approval" from Paul. (Id. at pp. 1526-1527.) The Sasson Jeans court stated that "the unauthorized sale of authorized goods does not give rise to a claim for trademark infringement," and found that the jeans were "genuine" under the district court's opinion in El El Greco Leather Products Co. v. Shoe World, Inc. (2d Cir. 1986) (Sasson Jeans, at p. 1528.)