Joshua Ets-Hokin v. Skyy Spirits Inc., a Delaware Corporation Maurice Kanbar Daniel Dadalt, AKA Daniel Dadait, and John P. Benson Unidigital-Tx Loretta J. Needham Needham, Joshua Ets-Hokin v. Skyy Spirits Inc., a Delaware Corporation Maurice Kanbar, and Daniel Dadalt, AKA Daniel Dadait Needham

323 F.3d 763 Joshua ETS-HOKIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SKYY SPIRITS INC., a Delaware corporation; Maurice Kanbar; Daniel Dadalt, aka Daniel Dadait, Defendants-Appellees, and John P. Benson; Unidigital-TX; Loretta J. Needham; Needham, Defendants. Joshua Ets-Hokin, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Skyy Spirits Inc., a Delaware corporation; Maurice Kanbar, Defendants-Appellants, and Daniel Dadalt, aka Daniel Dadait; Needham, Defendants. No. 01-17411. No. 02-15126. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted January 16, 2003. Filed March 14, 2003. Christopher C. Welch, Newport, RI, for the plaintiff-appellant-appellee. James Wesley Kinnear, Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees-appellants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; Susan Yvonne Illston, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-96-03690-SI. Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, GOODWIN and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge. 1 This long-running litigation is fundamentally about how many ways one can create an advertising photograph, called a "product shot," of a blue vodka bottle. We conclude there are not very many.…