Tiffany & Co. won a major court victory on Friday when a federal jury rejected a $45 million copyright infringement suit brought by a Philadelphia jewelry designer who said Tiffany had stolen his designs for a line of rings, pendants and bracelets with flush-set diamonds.
After a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III, the jury deliberated most of Thursday and one more hour on Friday before deciding that Paul Morelli’s designs were not even entitled to copyright protection.
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