A federal judge has thrown out a trade dress suit that the manufacturer of Dixie Cups filed against Huhtamaki Americas, the maker of Chinet, over the design of an insulated paper cup. U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr. found that Huhtamaki's design was spurred by expense considerations, not aesthetic ones. Batten also noted that it was "peculiar" that Dixie waited until the day it filed the lawsuit to seek registration of the alleged trade dress art issue.
March 16, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A trade dress suit filed by the Atlanta-based maker of Dixie Cups against the maker of Chinet over the design of an insulated paper cup has been thrown out by a federal judge.
In October 2008, Dixie Consumer Products sued Kansas-based Huhtamaki Americas Inc. Dixie claimed that Huhtamaki’s design for its Comfort Cup — which features a narrow white band at the base where an insulating strip of paper is cut off — violated Dixie’s design for its Insulair Cup, which also features such a strip.
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