In September of last year, I wrote on how Dannon called a lawsuit targeting its Activia yogurt “baseless. ” Last week, a Federal judge confirmed that view by dismissing the lawsuit and holding that milk…
According to FoodNavigator-USA , The Dannon Company, Inc. has labeled a new class action complaint targeting its Activia yogurt as “poorly informed and frivolous.” The class action plaintiff alleges that…
In a previous post , I wrote about Indiana farmer Vernon Bowman who purchased patented GMO soybean seeds from Monsanto for his “first growth” but used so-called “commodity seeds” purchased from local grain…
The U.S. Solicitor General has recommended that the U.S. Supreme Court not hear a case over whether the doctrine of patent exhaustion applies to Monsanto Co.’s herbicide-resistant Roundup Ready soybean seeds.…
From the Boston Globe : Boston Beer Company, maker of Samuel Adams, has filed a trademark for “Boston Strong” 26.2 Brew in the beer category. The trademark would allow for Boston Beer’s annual Marathon beer,…
Chalk this one up to regulation conformity winning over common sense. According to the BBC , the UK’s Food Standards Agency ”issued an allergy alert saying the presence of peanuts was not declared on Booths’…