Case Studies

A frozen meal with $500 million in sales contained an ingredient made by our client. FDA advised our client it had received potentially contaminated raw materials from a supplier resulting in a recall of the last 12 months’ production of the frozen meal.

A company built its own proprietary equipment to produce its highly successful food product. The equipment, and how it was operated, were the company’s trade secrets.

A U.S. company that buys seafood worldwide for sale in various countries purchased $700,000 of frozen oyster from South Korea for resale in the U.S. and Europe.

FDA has generally refused to define what is a “natural” food or a “natural food ingredient,” leaving it to juries to sort out. One jury might find that adding some ingredient to food makes it “not natural” while another jury (even in the same city) could find the same ingredient in a food is “natural.

Our client distributes its own brand of nuts that it imports from various countries in consumer sized packaging that is sold in drug stores, supermarkets, and convenience stores nationwide.

Our client, a specialty food producer, wanted to start a marketing battle against its biggest competitor in a region where both companies did business that was heavily populated by the companies’ target consumers.

Our client, an established food company, wanted to introduce a new product to the marketplace and had identified the perfect trademark to promote it. They asked us to federally register the trademark for them.

Our client, a Canadian food company, makes products there and in the U.S. that it sells under its brands in both countries and in Europe. They created a new brand that they thought was a perfect fit for one of their new products and asked us to obtain a U.

A dietary supplement company was being sued in a Federal Court class action for allegedly exaggerating its products’ benefits on its labels and website. The company was being defended by a prominent New York law firm that specializes in these matters.