ELKHART, Ind., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer Corporation announced today
that it filed a lawsuit against Selfcare, Inc., Inverness Medical, Inc., and
Can-Am Care Corporation. Filed in the Federal District Court for the Northern
District of Indiana, the suit charges the defendants with trademark and trade
dress infringement and unfair competition arising from Can-Am's prominent use
of Bayer's trademarks on packaging and in advertisements to promote the use of
Can-Am's Excel(R) GE test strips with Bayer's Glucometer Elite(R) blood
glucose monitors.
Specifically, the suit claims infringement by the defendants of Bayer's
registered trademarks Glucometer Elite(R), Glucometer(R), and the Bayer(R)
Cross, and unfair competition arising out of Can-Am's use of an imitative
package design likely to confuse or mislead consumers into believing that
Can-Am's test strips originate or are associated with Bayer. Can-Am's test
strips are not produced, licensed nor warranted by Bayer.
Bayer Diagnostics has an extensive history of developing and marketing
innovative diabetes management systems for people with diabetes worldwide. As
part of Bayer Diagnostics' comprehensive line of diabetes management systems,
the Glucometer Elite(R) blood glucose monitors and test strips were developed
to be used together as a system to provide accurate blood glucose readings,
which people with diabetes depend upon for reliable control of their diabetes.
Bayer Diagnostics (http://www.bayerdiag.com) serves customers in 100 countries
with an offering that includes diagnostics systems in Critical Care Testing,
Laboratory Testing, Point of Care Testing, Nucleic Acid Testing and Self-
Testing. The Self-Testing business segment is committed to the care of people
with diabetes worldwide. People with diabetes depend on the accuracy and
reliability of Bayer Diagnostics' diabetes care systems through its extensive
family of blood glucose monitors, test strips, alternate-site lancing devices,
blood glucose analyzers, urine chemistry diagnostic kits, and a 24-hour
telephone support service staffed by diabetes management experts.
Bayer Diagnostics is a division of Bayer Corporation and a member of the
worldwide Bayer Group, an international life sciences, polymers and specialty
chemicals group based in Leverkusen, Germany. With headquarters in
Pittsburgh, Bayer Corporation is a research-based company with major
businesses in health care, life sciences and chemicals.
SOURCE Bayer Corporation
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