date:Apr 24, 2014
r trademark, without a plural s, in 1998 from Huhtamaki Finance B.V., a Dutch company that had received it from the original registrant, Leaf Corp. Mars sued and eventually settled with Leaf in 1994. A few years later, Leaf assigned its Malteser mark to Huhtamaki Finance, who did not use Malteser in commerce at any time before selling the trademark to Hershey in 1998.
Since that time, Mars said Hershey has made no use or only bad faith, token use of the Malteser mark merely to reserve rights in