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Article: Oleg Cassini sues school over Cassini space probe merchandise. (trademark suit against California Institute of Technology)(Brief Article)
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- WWD
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- January 20, 1998
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NEW YORK -- Oleg Cassini has blasted off with a trademark infringement suit against the California Institute of Technology in connection with a NASA space mission to Saturn.
The designer said in papers filed in Federal Court here that the university began using the name "Cassini" to promote the launch in mid-October of a plutonium-fueled rocket known as the Cassini Space Probe.
Problem is, it's a different Cassini.
The rocket was named after the 17th-century astronomer Jean Dominique Cassini, an ancestor of Oleg Cassini, court papers said, and the "Cassini" mission is designed to explore Saturn and its rings and moons. The rocket is scheduled to reach ...