date:Jul 03, 2013
The Kraft Foods Group has won a preliminary injunction against the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., preventing Cracker Barrel from introducing several meat products to the retail marketplace under a licensing agreement with the John Morrell Food Group, a business unit of Smithfield Foods, Inc. Kraft Foods successfully argued that the Cracker Barrel branded meats would infringe on its trademarked Cracker Barrel brand cheeses.
Judge Robert W. Gettleman of the U.S. District Court for the No