Caffeinated Judiciary

What's in a jar? In a case currently before the Federal Court, coffee. But it's not about any old jar, but the particular shape of a jar which has irked Jacobs Douwe Egberts to the point where they've pursued legal action.


JDE (owner of Moccona) has claimed rival company Vittoria have hijacked their jar design thereby setting up possible confusion for the hapless consumer. If said consumer had no eyes as well as no hands, they may well be on to something. Just a cursory glance reveals how different the lid is to the other.

not to scale

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