Hershey's Taking Potshots at the Little Guy
Ah... hah hah :)
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Hershey is doing this under the guise of setting an example to drug dealers, but from a practical standpoint, it will cost much more than $100K to prosecute this from a Plaintiff's standpoint and I doubt a California jury would really buy the argument that this guy diluted their brand. If it is a bench trial, who knows. Not up on my trademark inf. damages.
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Unfair competition? Just which Hershey products was our erstwhile ganja entrepreneur competing against? This is going to result in a spate of hippies running around with chocolate smeared all over their lips. Gross.
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I think it's because Hershey can't figure out how to come up with something that satisfies the munchies.
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This is trademark enforcement to the extreme. Companies have to do this or they will be allowing "implied consent". This is why companies don't want their trademarks becoming a verb such as "google", kleenex, etc. Once that happens, it becomes public domain.
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Even if they win, it will take them a long time to collect, when you attach somebody's prison wages of $1.11 per hour making license plates.
Isn't this the same outfit that just closed one of their factories in California and moved it to Mexico? Their chocolote is waaaay to sweet and greasy. The Swiss and Peruvian chocolates taste so much nicer than Hershey's junk. |
Reminds me of the Mike Myers and Nicole Kidman sketch on SLN....The Hypo Chocolate Kid.
Too bad NBC pulled it from YouTube. . |
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