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From Editor & Publisher Lewis Perdue

August 31, 2022
 

The E. & J. Gallo Winery of Modesto, Calif.,  has filed suit against Freixenet Mionetto USA and Defendant CL Direct Imports of White Plains New York for allegedly "infringing Gallo’s federally-registered, distinctive, and incontestable trade dress."

 

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

 

The complaint stated that, Freixenet Mionetto had infringed "Gallo’s federally-registered, distinctive, and incontestable trade dress ...which Gallo has used for many years to package, promote, distribute and sell the best-selling Prosecco in the United States—by marketing the lesser-known and competing Prosecco."

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Gallo's complaint charged that it had suffered damages because there was a likelihood that consumers could confuse the two products.

 

Further details are available in the full court filings below, accessible to Wine Executive News premium subscribers.

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 Full Court Filings

• ECF1 Complaint-Gallo-v-Freixenet.pdf
• ECF1-1 Exhibit A
• ECF1-2 Exhibit B
• ECF7 Gallo v Freixenet/ECF7-AmendedComplaint-Gallo-v-Freixenet

 

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