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Originally Posted by ken0042
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 tom 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.
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It all depends on the nature and purpose of the businesses. What is Red Cross going to do with the profits? Buy porsches for their executives, or roll it back into their charitable contributions?