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- <text id=91TT1617>
- <title>
- July 22, 1991: Business Notes:Trademarks
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 22, 1991 The Colorado
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 50
- Business Notes
- TRADEMARKS
- The Doughboy Pokes Back
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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