The Pittsburgh Gazette reports on a lawsuit initiated by Leslie Friend, owner of a design patent for a pretzel shaped like a peace sign . The suit names Keystone Pretzels and Laurel Hill Foods as defendants,…
Last month I wrote about the Court’s preliminary ruling in the class action lawsuit targeting Gruma Corporation with respect to labeling its Mission® tortilla chips as “All Natural” despite the presumable…
With my trial over, I can again focus on this blog. Sorry for the lack of recent updates. Some interesting news in the putative class action lawsuit in which Gruma Corporation is charged with falsely and…
Wendy’s International Inc. has filed a trademark suit against the United Dairy Farmers, Inc. in the Southern District in connection with its FROSTY trademark. In the lawsuit, Wendy’s alleges that, “In an…
Last September I reported on the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court’s rulings against Innovation Ventures, LLC regarding a trademark and false advertising dispute involving its 5-Hour Energy product and a…
In a long-running dispute between Innovation Ventures LLC, the maker of “5-Hour ENERGY” products, and NVE Inc ., the maker of a competing “6 Hour POWER” product, the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court’s…
I have written before about Jack Daniel’s efforts to protect the iconic design of the label and bottle for its Tennessee Whiskey. Now, Jack Daniel’s has filed suit against J&M Concepts, LLC and Popcorn Sutton…
The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (“ILR,” an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) has released a new report called The New Lawsuit Ecosystem: Trends, Targets and Players that includes a section…
As previously reported on this blog , Kraft Foods filed suit against Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (“CBOCS”) on January 31, 2013 in light of the latter’s plan to use the CRACKER BARREL trademark on…
This past August, I was quoted on Forbes.com in an article on a grocery store in Vancouver called “Pirate Joe’s” that is based entirely on selling Trader Joe’s private label foodstuffs in Canada where there…
Last week, U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup dismissed with prejudice a putative class action complaint against Mondeléz International Inc., d/b/a Nabisco. The Complaint alleged that the plaintiff…