Judge Rules In Toilet Paper Dispute

[Nation]

Another WWE superstar upset

We previously reported that Ric Flair was quite upset about being left off the Wrestlemania 23 card. Carlito has nuclear heat for criticizing the WWE publicly for leaving him off the card as well. Add Hardcore Holly to the list of disgruntled WWE superstars upset about being left off the Wrestlemania 23 line up. Holly had postponed elbow surgery as he claimed writer Dave Lagana had told him he was heading into Wrestlemania working a major program with ECW World Heavyweight Champion Bobby Lashley that would culminate at the 4/1 PPV. Holly complained that he put himself in danger of further injuring himself while working with the bad elbow, and worked in considerable pain holding off surgery until after Wrestlemania to be available to work the show at Ford Field. Lagana is blaming outside forces, while outside forces are blaming Lagana.

Credit:Gerweck

 

[the dark knight]

damn! even the superstars are sick of lashley :S he is getting all the hype while most of other superstars deserve more than him . however, hordcore holly sucks 2 and he is the last person to complain .

 

[buzzsaw89]

Holly: Deserving?

Although Lagana may have promised Holly a main event push, the safety of the superstars is important. Thus with Snitsky "injuring" Holly and being pushed into a feud with Lashley, the seeds are planted for a three way match when Holly returns; ie. Holly claiming that Snitsky stole his title opportunity, leading to a 3 way at ONS maybe?

 

[Wrestling Station]

Holly sucks as much as Lashely do, so both of them dont deserve the big push. Hardcore holly should be feuding with Lashely for the US title at most! or TV title if it would be there in ECW.

 

[imported_Chase]

I would be upset too if I we're a 16-time World Champion!

 

[xtremebadass]

I agree with all of the angry stars, who wants to see guys like Lashley Trump Umaga Khali at Mania when you could have seen an instant classic in Flair and Carlito Holly would have not put on a good show IMO

 

[Maloney]

Yeah, if it was Holly vs. Lashley, it would have been way better then Lashley vs. Umaga.

 

[No More Sorrow]

Raise your hand if you can describe, from memory, the design on your toilet paper. Anyone?

Among those in the $4 billion industry, toilet-paper design is a big deal. Enough of an issue that a court battle between two toilet-paper titans ended up involving top-notch intellectual property lawyers, the deposition of more than a dozen witnesses and some 675,000 pages of documents.

The story starts in the early 1990s, when Georgia-Pacific Co. rebranded its toilet paper as Quilted Northern, with an embossed design that made it look, well, quilt-like. (YouTube has a Quilted Northern TV adfrom 2003.) The company received several trademarks, copyrights and patents for its flush of brilliance.

In 2008, the company discovered that one of its main competitors, Kimberly-Clark Corp., had redesigned its Cottonelle Ultra and Scott Kimberly-Clark Professional with a quilted design.

"Georgia-Pacific unrolled this suit against Kimberly-Clark, alleging unfair competition and trademark infringement," wrote Judge Terence Evans of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, who was not above a few puns in his 17-page decision.

While the arguments involved such qualities as puffiness, bulk, absorption and "nesting," the tissue issue came down to functionality. The court ruledthat Georgia-Pacific's Quilted Diamond Design is functional and therefore cannot be trademarked.

Maybe the lawyers who lost the case can dab their tears away – with a quilted toilet paper of their choice.

Yup.

 

[Ben]

Another pointless lawsuit, amazing what some people sue each other over.

 

[No More Sorrow]

Hah right?