Sorry there has been a delay in posting lately folks, hopefully will record a new episode of The Card Podcast tonight. But this news came out last night that Topps has filed suit against Upper Deck over the Upper Deck 2009 O-Pee-Chee Brand using the same design as 1971 and 1975 Topps. The story follows after the link.
Here is the AP story from Yahoo.com here is the meat of the story though.
In its lawsuit, Topps described how it believes Upper Deck mimicked its design with just a few variations.
It said similarities between each company’s cards included the use of a colorful, divided two-tone border, the player’s photograph superimposed on a thin white border, the player’s autograph toward the bottom of the picture and the use of an image of a baseball on a bottom corner of the card.
Topps said its competitor’s cards will confuse or deceive customers because each of the Upper Deck designs are nearly identical to the Topps cards.
Topps asked that Upper Deck be ordered to destroy the cards and turn over any profits, along with other unspecified monetary damages.
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