District Court, S.D. New York March 12, 2014, Civil Action No. 13-3427 (George Nelson Foundation v. Modernica, Inc.)

MEMORANDUM RE MOTION TO DISMISS

BAYLSON, District Judge.

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.1

The mystery of a name drives the plot in Puccini’s opera Tumadot. In the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale about Rumpelstiltzken, correctly guessing his name releases the promise he had extracted from a young maiden that she would give him her first born child.