Legal Opinion
Tomra of North America, Inc. v. Environmental Products Corp.
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided March 31, 1998No. 3:97CV1377(GLG)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum Decision
GOETTEL, District Judge.
This is a trade dress infringement action brought under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq., by Tomra of North America, Inc. (“TNA”), against Environmental Products Corporation (“Envipco”). TNA charges Envipco with misappropriation of its trade dress for its reverse vending machines. 1 En-vipeo and TNA are major competitors in the sale of reverse .vending machines throughout the United States.
Envipco answered the complaint and counterclaimed against TNA and its Norwegian parent corporation, Tomra Systems ASA (“Tomra”), seeking a declaratory…
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