Case Name: Paul RIMMEIR et al., doing business as Sea View Ventilated Awning Shutters, Petitioners, v. Jack DICKSON and Benjamin Horrow, as Copartners doing business as Miami Ventilated Awning Shutter Company, Respondents
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1957-12-11
Citations: 98 So. 2d 787
Docket Number: 
Parties: Paul RIMMEIR et al., doing business as Sea View Ventilated Awning Shutters, Petitioners, v. Jack DICKSON and Benjamin Horrow, as Copartners doing business as Miami Ventilated Awning Shutter Company, Respondents.
Judges: TERRELL, C. J., and HOBSON, ROBERTS, THORNAL and O’CONNELL, JJ., ■concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 98
Pages: 787–788

Head Matter:
Paul RIMMEIR et al., doing business as Sea View Ventilated Awning Shutters, Petitioners, v. Jack DICKSON and Benjamin Horrow, as Copartners doing business as Miami Ventilated Awning Shutter Company, Respondents.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Dec. 11, 1957.
Ward & Ward and Seymour Simon, Miami, for petitioners.
Robert H. Givens, Jr., Miami, for respondents.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We here review, on certiorari, the lower court's second amended final decree entered pursuant to the mandate of this court in Rimmeir v. Dickson, Fla.1957, 93 So.2d 82. The amended decree here reviewed authorized further proceedings "so as to permit the plaintiffs to make a 'definite showing of specific damages, if they can, resulting from infringement of plaintiffs' tradename and trademark by defendants'."
Assuming that by the use of the word "trademark" the lower court meant only a non-technical symbol designating the •defendants' product — which is clearly the sense in which it was used in Rimmeir v. Dickson, supra — and that the plaintiffs' •damages will, therefore, be properly limited to those referable to the unauthorized use by defendants of "the symbols designating the firm and those designating the products of defendant" (as distinguished from damages for the infringement of a technical trademark which, as noted in Rimmeir v. Dickson, Fla.1955, 78 So.2d 732, is not involved here) the petition for certiorari should be and it is hereby
Denied.
TERRELL, C. J., and HOBSON, ROBERTS, THORNAL and O'CONNELL, JJ., concur.