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Article: Toilet seat maker claims patent infringement, false advertising
- Article from:
- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2008
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MILWAUKEE - Industry giant Bemis Manufacturing Co. isn't about to
take toilet-seat misrepresentation sitting down.
The Wisconsin-based firm, the self-described world's largest
manufacturer of toilet seats, is suing a small Canadian company over
what Bemis says is patent infringement and false advertising.
Among the issues: The descriptions by Centoco Plastics Ltd. of
its model numbers 700 and 900, a pair of relatively inexpensive
seats fashioned from molded wood and plastic.
Centoco, Bemis alleges in a suit filed recently in federal court,
has claimed in its advertising "that Centoco toilet seats were
superior or equal to Bemis toilet seats." Bemis says the Canadian
firm hasn't backed that ...