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Originally Posted by Superflyer
This is crazy, sure they are going to use the symbol on their merchendise but this is the Red Cross and anything that they raise is going to help people in need.
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I read this differently. J&J was fine with the Red Cross using their registered trademark for aid and relief, but now the Red Cross wants to use it to compete on a business level with J&J.
"After more than a century of strong cooperation in the use of the Red Cross trademark. ... we were very disappointed to find that the American Red Cross started a campaign to license the trademark to several businesses for commercial purposes," Johnson & Johnson said in a statement.
Edit- also it appears that J&J tried to settle this dispute without a lawsuit, but the Red Cross declined.
The company (J&J) also said that it had offered to engage in third-party mediation to resolve the dispute, but that the Red Cross declined.