Frito-Lay Says ‘Pretzel Crisp’ Trademark Fight Is Getting Stale
Here’swhat Law 360 have to say PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay Inc. is urging a North Carolina federal judge to uphold a ruling by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board that “pretzel crisps” is a generic phrase, saying that rival snack maker Snyder’s-Lance has twice been shut down by the board and is now “desperate for a different outcome” in court.
Frito-Lay on Thursday asked for summary judgment against Snyder’s-Lance subsidiary Princeton Vanguard in the unit’s November suit appealing a TTAB determination that “pretzel crisp” was a generic and unregistrable phrase, arguing that “mountains of…
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