But, what do I know. I don't have millions of dollars at stake.
Posted on 12/07/2015 10:37:34 AM PST by servo1969
Pepperidge Farm is suing Trader Joe's for infringing on the trademark of its popular Milano cookie.
According to a complaint filed on Wednesday in New Haven, Connecticut federal court, the grocery chain's version of a sandwich cookie, called Trader Joe's Crispy Cookies, look too similar to the Milano cookie and the products' sale is "damaging its goodwill and confusing shoppers," reports Reuters.
Milano cookies, which were first introduced to the market in 1956, are crispy oval-shaped vanilla cookies with a chocolate crème filling. Over the years, variations have been introduced, including mint chocolate, orange chocolate and even pumpkin spice. The cookie was trademarked in 2010.
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But, what do I know. I don't have millions of dollars at stake.
Trader Joes has some excellent store brands at reasonable prices.
Oh, for a world in which this was our most serious problem...
Different shape, no mole, darker color on the package, darker package, substantially different picture. Looks like a reach by Campbell’s Soup.
That is a non-starter of a suit.
When I first went to Trader Joe’s, I was surprised at the amount of processed junk food. Of course, it’s packaged very nicely in an upscale yuppie kind of way. Last time I was there, I bought those turkey-stuffing flavored potato chips. I could not put the bag down until they were all gone. I also have a weakness for their coconut macaroons.
Never heard of them.
Must have now, though!
Campbell soup owns Pepperidge Farm?
TJ’s Milano copies are much better, they use high quality chocolate. Ask me how I know ;). DH would like those chips, must look for them next time I go.
Well, after they raised the price of Two-Buck-Chuck...
All gum packaging looks pretty similar. A lot of products have similar packaging. Doesn’t mean it was stolen from someone else. Milano’s are really good, though.
Aldi’s owns Trader Joe’s.
Aldi’s sells a Milano which I find tastier and a heck of a lot cheaper.
Likely that Aldi label and TJ label cookies are the same.
I used to eat the Milanos, but now try to stay away from anything that has “hydrogenated” in the ingredients list. the majority of long shelf life chocolate confections have them.
TJ’s swoon!!!!
Add another city/state TJ to my list!! (Louisville)
For those unfamiliar with Copyright laws, color, font and names can be copyrighted.
This was how Intel lost the rights to “386”, “486”
They didn’t copyright it correctly and it became generic.
Frankly I don’t see a case.
Fonts, packaging and colors are completely different thus no “attempt to deceive”
I like the mulatto cookies, myself.
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