Warranty Liability Under the UCC Title, Security Interest, and No Infringements

You are walking home from class one night, when you are approached by an individual wearing a trench coat.As you approach, the individual whips open the trench coat revealing twenty five Rolexs. He asks you if you would like to purchase a watch for twenty dollars, and you respond yes.A week later you take it to a jeweler for repair, and the jeweler discovers that it is my wife's stolen watch.

1) Is my wife entitled to the return of the watch and if so, what remedy do you have against the mysterious individual in the trench coat?

A common site in the back windows of pickup trucks in our local County is an image of Calvin [of Calvin and Hobbes fame], for lack of a better term urinating on anything from a NASCAR number to Nestle.You decide after college to go into business selling these items.You obtain a number of them from a supplier, and after a few weeks you are approached by a copyright attorney who shuts you down for infringement.

2. a) Why is there a case for infringement [in particular with Calvin and Hobbes] and b) What is your remedy against your supplier?

A number of years ago in class, I had a student who purchased a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder from a local used car lot.At the time of sale the odometer read that it had 36,000 miles, a fact confirmed by the salesperson.A few weeks later he began to experience catastrophic problems with the engine, and took it to the local Nissan dealer.When the dealer entered the VIN number into his computer, he found that the last time the vehicle was serviced, it had 85,000 miles on the odometer.

3a) May he sue for breach of an expressed warranty?

b) What if the salesperson had said that this was the finest Nissan Pathfinder in Northern New York?

c) If there is a difference, what is the difference between the two statements?