Kansas City-based Faultless Starch, the owner of Garden Weasel, is suing a company in New Jersey called World and Main LLC for infringing on its trade dress and counterfeiting its advertising images. The Garden Weasel brand is trademarked.
The Garden Weasel is a hand-operated rotary cultivator used for gardening that's been around since 1975. An extensive advertising campaign in the 1980s and 1990s, including Garry Shandling doing spots on "The Larry Sanders Show" (see video on YouTube), made it…
Kansas City-based Faultless Starch, the owner of Garden Weasel, is suing a company in New Jersey called World and Main LLC for infringing on its trade dress and counterfeiting its advertising images. The Garden Weasel brand is trademarked.
The Garden Weasel is a hand-operated rotary cultivator used for gardening that's been around since 1975. An extensive advertising campaign in the 1980s and 1990s, including Garry Shandling doing spots on "The Larry Sanders Show" (see video on YouTube), made it…