R.C. Bigelow, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• finding that use of allegedly infringing trade dress in advertisements qualified under enumerated offense of “[c]opying a person’s or organization’s advertising ideas or advertising style”
• advertising that displays infringing packaging could contribute to the injury where the packaging causes consumer confusion
• noting that, under Connecticut law, “[t]he duty to defend does not hinge on the skill or manner in which a complaint is drafted, but rests on the substantive thrust of the complaint, and the surrounding facts”
• advertising injury clause implicated when competitor’s underlying complaint alleged that insured had marketed herbal teas in new packaging with trade dress confusingly similar to that of competitor’s 14 boxes
• holding false advertising claim excluded by similar language
• discussing the requirement that advertising contribute to the trademark or trade dress infringement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).