IMPORTANT news: Judges clear air in dispute over toilet paper design

[dixiegrrrrl]

Don't y'all feel better knowing the really really important problems are being taken care of?



Appeals court brings an end to litigation between industry leaders

"Among those in the $4 billion industry, toilet-paper design is a big deal. Enough of an issue that a court battle between two toilet-paper titans ended up involving top-notch intellectual property lawyers, the deposition of more than a dozen witnesses and some 675,000 pages of documents.

The story starts in the early 1990s, when Georgia-Pacific Co. rebranded its toilet paper as Quilted Northern, with an embossed design that made it look, well, quilt-like. The company received several trademarks, copyrights and patents for its flush of brilliance.
In 2008, the company discovered that one of its main competitors, Kimberly-Clark Corp., had redesigned its Cottonelle Ultra and Scott Kimberly-Clark Professional with a quilted design.

"Georgia-Pacific unrolled this suit against Kimberly-Clark, alleging unfair competition and trademark infringement," wrote Judge Terence Evans of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, who was not above a few puns in his 17-page decision.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43950344/ns/business-us_business/

so not only was there a HUGE expensive trial, over who got the "right" to a quilt design on their TP, there was a
HUGE appeal also.

but Koch lost...heh heh heh

[tridim]

1. I'll wipe to that.

[frazzled]

2. Amazing the amount they're willing to blow on trials and lawyers, but ...

they don't want to pay a nickel in taxes. It boggles the mind.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. There's a "professional" toilet paper?