P&G Steps Up Trade Dress Litigation Against Private Labelers
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Procter & Gamble has more trade dress and intellectual property litigation against private labelers in the works, the company said during a week it filed a lawsuit against one firm and settled with another
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P&G v. Cumberland-Swan: Cumberland-Swan will pay $85,000 to P&G as part of the settlement of a trade dress infringement suit filed in July ("The Tan Sheet" Sept. 19, p. 5), P&G announces Dec. 21. The suit charged Cumberland-Swan with selling products in packages that infringed P&G's Head & Shoulders shampoo, Secret and Sure antiperspirants and deodorants and Noxzema skin creams. "Soon after" the suit was filed, the products were removed from F&M's store shelves, P&G said, and Cumberland-Swan must change the products' labeling under a consent judgment. The suits against F&M and Evron Industries, making similar charges, are ongoing...