Posts Tagged ‘Nestle’

NYT on Muscle Milk and others

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
This story is chock full of great advertising and trademark law puzzles: when is milk not milk? If soy milk isn't deceptive, can muscle milk be? If Muscle Milk is a legitimate trademark, can the company oppose other trademarks using Milk? Notably, Nestle brought a complaint against Muscle Milk using NAD and is petitioning to cancel the trademark, but didn't file a Lanham Act suit. My best guess: worried about standing, even though Muscle Milk is now available in the refrigerated secti

Gore, others urge CEOs to back climate change deal (San Francisco Chronicle)

Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Climate-change heavyweights U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders on Sunday to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing greenhouse gases. The CEOs of PepsiCo, Nestle, BP and other...