Judge Orders Cosmetics Company To Pay For More Depositions In Trademark Dispute

( July 29, 2024, 1:04 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A cosmetics company that asserts trademark and trade dress infringement of its mascara product by another cosmetics manufacturer will be allowed to conduct additional depositions to mitigate the prejudice caused by the defendant company belatedly disclosing expert witnesses’ functionality theories about the mascara brush trade dress that should have been included in discovery, a federal judge in California held....