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When is an Office Chair Design Famous? US Supreme Court Won t Hear Herman Miller s Trade Dress Appeal Regarding the Eames Chair Wednesday, March 10, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to take up Herman Miller, Inc.’s appeal from a Ninth Circuit holding that partially overturned a jury verdict and held that Herman Miller’s popular Eames office chair (average retail price US$1,200) is not “famous” enough to qualify for trade dress dilution protection.
[1] The Supreme Court’s denial of Herman Miller’s petition means the Ninth Circuit’s decision will stand.
In 2016, a jury ordered defendant Office Star Products to pay Herman Miller US$3.3 million in trade dress infringement damages and US$3 million in trade dress dilution damages for selling office chairs that look like Herman Miller’s Eames chairs. At trial, Herman Miller introduced evidence that it sold hundreds of thousands of its Eames chairs since 1958, it spent an average of US$55