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A battle for stuffed animals is being fought in court.
Squishmallow maker Jazzwares, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, sued rival Bill-A-Bear on Monday, accusing it of plagiarizing its designs. Build-A-Bear fired back with its own lawsuit the same day.
Warren Buffett speaks in an interview on Bloomberg TV in New York on August 30, 2017. Berkshire-owned Jazzwear sued Build-A-Bear on Monday for allegedly copying Squishmallow’s design. (Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
| ticker | safety | last | change | change % |
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| BRK.B | Berkshire Hathaway Company | 397.71 | -0.65 | -0.16% |
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In the complaint filed in Los Angeles Jazzwear Inc. has accused Bill-A-Bear in federal court of infringing its intellectual property rights with its new Scooshers toy line, alleging that the company “blatantly and intentionally” undermined its goodwill and It said it had caused significant confusion among consumers by imitating the look and feel of Sumerow’s.
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Jazzwear, which Berkshire has owned since it acquired parent company Alleghany in October 2022, is seeking an order for Bill-A-Bear to stop manufacturing Scoushers and pay triple unspecified damages. There is.
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Bill-A-Bear claims in a lawsuit in St. Louis federal court that Squishmallows lack a consistent look and feel and that Squishers are just the latest in a long-running trend of “soft pillow-like squishy” toys. Stated. .
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Build-A-Bear is seeking a court declaration that it has not violated Squishmallows’ jazzwear “trade dress” rights and that such rights are unenforceable.
Police assist at the front door of a Build-A-Bear store as the line stretches across most of the second floor of Park Meadows Mall in Lone Tree, Colorado. (Joe Amon/Denver Post via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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| Chubby | BUILD A BEAR WORKSHOP INC. | 22.57 | +0.01 | +0.04% |
Build-A-Bear Workshop Co., Ltd.
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Neither Build-A-Bear nor its attorney immediately responded to requests for additional comment.
Reuters contributed to this report.
