Law360, New York (July 30, 2014, 10:15 AM EDT) -- Here's a play on an old children's riddle: What's brown and white and read all over? The not-so-childish answer is Maryland state Sen. Steve Hershey's campaign signs. However, on July 16, 2014, Judge William D. Quarles of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in The Hershey Company, et al. v. Friends of Steve Hershey, et al, case number 1:14-cv-01825, preliminarily enjoined the senator from using the brown and white campaign signs The Hershey Company contended infringed upon its Hershey's trade dress and ordered him to remove all infringing forms of the signs from the Internet and to take down all infringing outdoor signs and posters. Not a sweet outcome for the senator, who, for years, has been embroiled in an on-again, off-again dispute with The Hershey Company over signs and logos he has used in his different political campaigns....
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