Sunday, January 6, 2013

Chocolate wars...


Hello and happy, sweet, new year!  As bitter as it may sound, chocolate and candy companies also are in the game of lawsuits.  They are fighting over trademarking of colors and shapes…Nestle recently won a case that Cadbury had against it trying to stop the trademark of the Kit Kat bar.  Cadbury had earlier on won a case against Nestle over the purple color.  Moreover, Haribo, the gummy bear maker, is ruling against Lindt to prevent it from making its planned chocolate bears wrapped in gold-foil.

The “law of exclusivity” applies in this case, too.  Nestle has the exclusive ownership of rectangular, finger bars; Cadbury of the color purple and Haribo of the teddy bear…

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