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Divorcee wins mixer after 12-year case
In a divorce case that has dragged out over 12 years, a woman in New York has finally gained what she wanted from the settlement - a mixer.But the mixer, reports AP, isn't something she can now…
Lawyers Weekly
In a divorce case that has dragged out over 12 years, a woman in New York has finally gained what she wanted from the settlement - a mixer.
The commercial mixer, the Artofax, is a machine developed in Switzerland and Karin Seruga has been fighting for the right to manufacture and sell it as part of her bakery machine-making business, Seruga's Excellent Bakery Equipment Co, in Fairfield, near New York City.
Her former husband, Richard Zinn, claimed there has been a trademark infringement and has been attempting to stop her producing the machine because he runs a competing business 20 miles away, in Fair Lawn, called Zinn's Excalibur Bagel and Bakery Equipment. He claimed he retained the trademark to produce the Artofax when their shared business - and marriage - collapsed. She claimed she did.
Zinn's lawyers claimed Seruga was "pursuing a matrimonial action in the guise of a trademark dispute".
Seruga denied this, saying "It was a matter of money. Business is business and you don't step on someone else's territory."
A Federal judge agreed with Seruga and awarded her a hefty $US570,000 ($628,000). And that's a lot of dough in anyone's book.
Folklaw believes that hell hath no fury like a woman, er, sconed.
