News flash: Febreze beats Air Wick


News flash: Febreze routs Air Wick

Mr Justice Lewison ruled yesterday in Procter & Gamble v Reckitt Benckiser [2006] EWHC 3154 (Ch) (available here on BAILII) that the packaging of Reckitt Benckiser's Air Wick Odour Stop infringed Procter & Gamble's validly-registered Community design for the packaging of Febreze (a custom-designed canister surmounted by a trigger within a housing). Comment to follow, either late today or some time tomorrow).