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- BUSINESS, Page 50Business NotesTRADEMARKSThe Doughboy Pokes Back
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- The chubby white Pillsbury Doughboy, who has been getting
- poked in the belly for 25 years, never ceases to find it amusing.
- But he sees nothing funny in the antics and appearance of Drox,
- the new character being used by Sunshine Biscuits to promote
- Hydrox cookies. In a lawsuit, Pillsbury claims that Drox looks and
- sounds too much like the trademark Doughboy. The suit describes
- Drox, who appears on cookie packages and in TV commercials, as
- "a two-legged, puffy white voiced character." When it comes to
- pudgy pitchmen, the Doughboy has at least one other colleague --
- the sixtysomething Michelin Man. But apparently the baking
- business isn't big enough for two roly-poly guys to coexist
- peacefully.
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