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Consumer Products

It’s all about protecting consumers against confusion, right? Households around the world are full of products our clients produce and Fross Zelnick knows just how to protect those brands and the consumers who use them. We clear the marks for use around the globe and then enforce clients’ rights against infringers and counterfeiters to ensure that the brand’s integrity is maintained and consumers are protected. Our clients come from myriad areas, including cleaning products, automotive goods, food and beverage, electronics, personal care products, cosmetics, clothing, footwear, home appliances, and fitness and exercise equipment, to name a few. To protect our clients’ brands, we use everything available in our IP arsenal: trademarks, designs, trade dress and copyright - and we do it everywhere in the world.

Think about how many households there are in the world and you might wonder, “How do brand owners effectively protect and police their brands all over the world? Where do they even begin?” At Fross Zelnick, we know how to help develop strategies – based on the specific needs and goals of each client – to secure, protect and enforce their rights. And we know how to do that for clients of all shapes and sizes from startups like Bonobos and Peloton to established global brands like Johnson & Johnson and Kao Corporation. No client is too small or too big for us to help guide their IP strategy and, with our deep knowledge and experience, we are able provide cost-effective and sensible approaches to IP protection in the U.S. and around the world.

Strengths that Matter to our Clients:

  •  Ability to quickly understanding the client’s business and goals, regardless of their size or age
  • Experience in securing registrations for virtually every kind of consumer product across jurisdictions around the world
  • Deep knowledge of how to best cover the variety of goods and services in this vast area of products and ability how to help clients license their goods when needed
  • Ability to guide startups on strategic, cost-effective IP protection that provides critical initial protection that can expand, as needed, with growth

Decisions

  • Perfetti Van Melle USA v. Cadbury Adams USA LLC

    January 1, 2010

    732 F. Supp. 2d 712 (E.D. Ky. 2010)

    On behalf of our client Cadbury Adams USA LLC–maker of the famous DENTYNE brand of chewing gum–we defeated a motion for a preliminary injunction brought by plaintiff which sought to block the launch of Cadbury’s new breath purifying gum,More

  • Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.

    July 1, 2013

    No. 1:13-cv-00780 (N.D. Ill. July 1, 2013), aff’d 735 F.3d 735 (7th Cir. 2013)

    The Firm obtained a preliminary injunction on behalf of Kraft Foods Group Brands, LLC , owner of the CRACKER BARREL trademark in connection with cheese, against restaurant company, Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores,More

  • Inter-IKEA Systems B.V. v. Akea, LLC

    January 1, 2014

    Opp. No. 91196527 (T.T.A.B. 2014)

    The Board sustained, in part, the Firm’s opposition, filed on behalf of IKEA, to the registration of AKEA for retail direct sales services in the field of nutritional supplements, finding a likelihood of confusion.More

  • Kam Hing Enters., Inc. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

    February 18, 2009

    Case No. 07 CV 2316 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 18, 2009), aff’d, 359 Fed.Appx. 235 (2d. Cir. 2010)

    The Firm prevailed after trial, winning in excess of $2 million dollars for a copyright infringement claim brought on behalf of client Kam Hing Enterprises, Inc. Prior to trial on damages,More

  • Frida Kahlo Corporation v. Tupperware Corporation

    March 31, 2014

    Case No. 13-21039 (S.D. Fla. Mar. 31, 2014)

    The court granted the Firm’s motion to dismiss the case, based on lack of subject matter jurisdiction, because the allegedly infringing acts occurred in Mexico and other Central and South American countries. The court held that foreign websites that can be seen in Florida were not sufficient to give the court subject matter jurisdiction,More

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Representative Experience

  • Clients include Ann Taylor, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Energizer Holdings, The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., The Gap, Heineken N.V., Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Johnson & Johnson, Kao Corporation Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Mondelēz International, Inc., L’Oreal SA, PepsiCo, Philip Morris International, Inc., Unilever PLC, S.C. Johnson, Spectrum Brands, and Yum! Brands, Inc.
  • Represented a Fortune 100 company in its divestiture of its consumer health business involving the transfer of ownership for more than 1000 trademarks globally
  • Assisted a consumer health manufacturer in developing a global trademark filing strategy for its product packaging designs enabling it to better protect its trade dress from infringers

Newsroom

  • England and Wales: Use of Trademarks as Search Term Keywords

    June 5, 2014

    By John Margiotta

    Cosmetic Warriors Ltd & Lush Limited v. Amazon.co.uk Ltd & Amazon EU SARL [2014] EWHC 181 (Ch) (10 February 2014)

    In February 2014, the High Court of England and Wales issued a ruling which provides some key guidance on permissible Google AdWords usage and usage of trademarks as search terms more generally.More

  • European Union: Test For Distinctiveness of Three-Dimensional Marks Applies To Figurative Marks For Two-Dimensional Representations of Products

    September 9, 2017

    August Storck KG v. European Union Intellectual Property Office (Case No. C-417/16P, May 4, 2017)

    The Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) recently issued a decision in which it confirmed that case law which was developed in relation to the distinctiveness of three-dimensional marks consisting of the appearance of the product itself also applies to figurative marks for the two-dimensional representation of a product. More

  • European Union: Certification Mark Registration Now Possible

    December 10, 2017

    Trade associations, government bodies, technical institutes, and other public and private entities that certify that goods and services meet certain quality standards are now able to register their certification marks in the EU. 

    The EU certification mark, available as of October 1, 2017,More

  • USPTO: Registration of Non-Traditional Trademarks

    September 9, 2018

    While trademark protection is most commonly associated with source identifiers such as individual words, logos, slogans, and a combination of these elements, trademark protection in the United States can also extend to colors, sounds, smells, and other non-traditional source identifiers.  Brands appeal to consumers in varied ways,More

  • China: Dior Win in Long-Running Battle Over 3D Trademark For J’ADORE Bottle

    September 2, 2018

    Parfums Christian Dior v. China Trademark Review and Adjudication Board, Supreme People’s Court 2018

    On World Intellectual Property Day 2018, the Supreme People’s Court (the “SPC”) reheard the administrative dispute concerning the Chinese Trademark Office’s (the “CTMO”) refusal to register a three-dimensional (“3D”) trademark for Dior’s J’ADORE perfume bottle. More

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