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Haagen-Dazs Wins Infringement Case In China Published December 5, 2012 at 4:00 AM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 1:02
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
And our last word in business today comes from China, and the word is: Harga-Dazs(ph).
Harga-Dazs, almost like the ice cream brand Haagen-Dazs, except for the R, Harga-Dazs is a clothing company in China. It received permission from Chinese officials to trademark that name
back in 2003.
The U.S. food company General Mills, which owns the Haagen-Dazs brand, of course, complained. Now General Mills can savor the sweet taste of justice. A judge in Beijing ruled this week, that
the clothing company cannot use the name Harga-Dazs since people could apparently confuse the clothing with the ice cream.
And that's the business news on MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
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And I'm David Greene. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.