Legal Opinion
Buetow v. A.L.S. Enterprises, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 18, 2011No. 10-2415PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
There is a substantial market for products that will prevent game animals, with their keen sense of smell, from detecting the presence of hunters. Activated carbon, when embedded in clothing, adsorbs1 and retains human scent. In 1992, A.L.S. Enterprises began manufacturing and selling hunting garments incorporating activated carbon by a patented process that A.L.S. advertised under the brand name “Scent-Lok®” as “odor eliminating technology.” Fifteen years later, five hunters commenced this purported class action against A.L.S. and three of its licensees who sell odor…
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