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Article: Standing up for its product; Maker of toilet seats files suit claiming patent infringement, false advertising
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 15, 2008
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Industry giant Bemis Manufacturing Co. isn't about to take toilet-
seat misrepresentation sitting down.
The Sheboygan Falls 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 up, and ...
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