by Joel Rothman | Jun 12, 2006 | NutriSupLaw, trademarks
JEC Nutrition, marketers of South African hoodia supplement H57 has sued CPMC, marketers of a competing hoodia supplement product that goes by the name X57, for trademark infringement. In an interesting twist related to a prior post on this blog, actor Joe...
by Joel Rothman | Jun 11, 2006 | NutriSupLaw
A Utah Federal District Court has determined that Vitacost.com has sufficient contacts with the state of Utah for the exercize of personal jurisdiction over them in a suit brought by supplement brand leader, Nutraceutical. Based in Park City, Utah, Nutraceutical sells...
by Joel Rothman | Jun 4, 2006 | NutriSupLaw
According to this informative article by Greg Doherty of LA dietary supplement specialty insurance broker Poms & Associates, insurance costs for commercial general liability, including product liability, have finally leveled off for companies in the dietary...
by Joel Rothman | Jun 4, 2006 | NutriSupLaw
MII Liquidation Inc., as the former Metabolife International Inc. is now known, said in a court document filed Wednesday that it had reached agreements to settle the first 21 of hundreds of injury and death lawsuits over its once best-selling ephedra-based dietary...
by Joel Rothman | Jun 3, 2006 | NutriSupLaw
Joseph R. Gannascoli, who played a closeted gay mobster on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” is being sued by the manufacturer of Stacker 2. According to this report on Forbes.com, NVE Pharmaceuticals filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming Gannascoli hasn’t...
