people eating hershey s kisses or chocolate chips know about that act. exhibit b. this is from reuters. hershey s invented hershey s kisses and 1907. according to papers, has had related trademark registration since at least 1976. they say this is their deal. they are not the same. the kiss has a wrap. it has a piece of paper coming up the top. if this were even true then every single candy manufacturer basically on every shelf in the grocery store must redo their chocolate chips. we are talking about chocolate chips versus the kiss. that s critical. this is leverage at its best. what happened was the cookie department first had a lawsuit that started in december. that was another trademark copyright infringement against
talking about hershey s kisses and their iconic shape. we will call it food court. they are facing a lawsuit from the cookie department arguing what hershey calls its conical configuration is a universal symbol on hershey s claims the use of a similar shape does not constitute copyright infringement. ethan bearman. criminal defense attorney david bruno. welcome back. he hershey s kiss versus a chocolate chip. are they the same? exhibit a from the complaint. hershey seeks to prevent the cookie department from contending to offer its goods using a stylized chocolate chip teardrop imagery which they have used since 2009 and hershey s belatedly 11 years after the fact claims is infringing
hershey s. shannon: these two are coming after each other. yes. the cookie department was first with their first lawsuit. and long period of time before hershey s even comes up with this argument and it s right in the middle of litigation. the timing is very fishy. not to mention they are not selling the same product. shannon: it might be a little bit of back-and-forth with these dueling lawsuits over their different trademarks and names. i want to highlight exhibit c. if hershey can claim their rights to any and all teardrop shaped chocolate should and the also be going after chocolate chip manufacturers. most baking aisle chocolate chips do feature teardrop shaped chips. there s two parts of that. it is ghirardelli which is
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genuine economic american economic interest at heart. talking to charlie dent from pennsylvania, go to hershey, they wrap every hershey s kiss in aluminum. wilbur ross says he thinks some of the cost will be absorbed. i don t know if i agree. if producers can pass on the price to consumers, they will. if it s one slice of the economy, just aluminum, just steel, will that help steel producers and aluminum producers? yes. you re absolutely right. it will hurt all those people who use those products, and that s assuming there s not retaliation. again, trade wars don t come from one tariff. they come when someone smacks you back for a tariff and you smack them back. suddenly everyone is paying higher prices. bourbon, u.s. jeans, harley-davidson. you have to be concerned in the midwest about agriculture. christine romans, thank you. alison kosik, our thanks to you