P&G sues Dollar Shave Club

[GA Russell]

I haven't seen this posted elsewhere here. If it has already been discussed, the mods are welcome to delete this.

P&G (which is to say, Gillette) is suing Dollar Shave Club, claiming that their patents are being infringed.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Gillette+ ... &efirst=21

[CMur12]

It figures. I hope the Dollar Shave Club survives this, but it sounds like P&G would really like to put them out of business.

- Murray

[fallingwickets]

The way i read some of the press is that poor gillette spends hundreds of millions, takes massive hits on their hardware (razor) and is therefore free of any moral obligation not to charge excessive amounts for their blades. And I feel very very badly for the like of dorco and their resellers, but at the very end of the day, gents continue pay gillette when they could very easily pay bullgoose for pack of blades instead! As long as these said gents continue to vote for gillette with their wallets, gillette will have no reason to stop raping them at the register.

clive

[Squire]

Hear, hear, you can't rape the willing.

[nicodemus38]

if someone isn't smart enough, or able enough, to put together the fact of a 12 dollar entry handle/razor cartridge kit, plus 25 for a 4 pack of replacement cartridges. Its still being raped by a large company.

every cartridge razor can be sued as a patent infringement.

[slackskin]

Hear, hear, you can't rape the willing.

The difference between rape and seduction is salesmanship.

[Squire]

. . . . every cartridge razor can be sued as a patent infringement.

Not really, there must be a provable infringement for a suit to succeed.

Isn't Dollar Shave Club simply a retailer of goods rather than a manufacturer? One would think P&G would go after the actual maker though I can see how it would be easier to sue a guy in California rather than a Chinese company.

[Just Looking]

Looks like Harry's manufactures their own product.

There is another video out there that does provide more detail regarding the manufacturing end of things... can't seem to find it at the moment.
The one below gives a little insight though.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/ ... 5099fc334c

[brothers]

I believe (should say, I hope) the DSC is sophisticated and probably have legal counsel planning multiple ways to look P&G in the eye and countersue with a vengeance.

[nicodemus38]

it will be settled out of court. the whole patent infringement type case is always won by the person with the most lawyers and money. Its in the patent paperwork for defending a patent.

[Squire]

. . . . case is always won by the person with the most lawyers and money. . . .

As God obviously intended. Of course, in an imperfect World, common jurors are surprisingly unimpressed by large money and sharp tongued lawyers.