Tomorrow is election day in Washington State with ballot initiative 522 being the new focus of the GMO labeling debate. The initiative would require food products with GMO’s to be labeled beginning July 1,…
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…