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The Door Store Is Accused of Misappropriation of Ideas - July 16, 2008 - The New York Sun

By HOPE HODGE An award-winning New York City furniture designer is suing the parent company of a furniture retail chain, claiming the Door Store commissioned another designer to copy his furniture for profit. In a complaint filed yesterday in state Supreme Court, John Kelly, of John Kelly Furniture Design in Manhattan, said the Door Store's CEO, Jodi Brinkman Fitzgerald, dismissed John Kelly Furniture Design as a supplier after finding that she could get "virtually identical" furniture from a competitor, Ligna USA Inc. One of Mr. Kelly's signature design features, according to the complaint, is furniture created to be promoted and sold in "series," or corresponding pieces of similarly designed furniture that work together to create "room environments."

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