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PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. v. KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP.

Civ. A. No. 2:87-0047-1.

740 F.Supp. 1177 (1989)

The PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

July 20, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Rosen, Morris D. Rosen, Rosen, Rosen & Hagood, Charleston, S.C., Allen H. Gerstein, Kevin Hogg, Carl E. Moore, Jr., Douglass C. Hochstetler, Terry W. McMillan, Anthony Nimmo, Marshall, O'Toole, Gerstein, Murray & Bicknell, Chicago, Ill., Richard C. Witte, Fredrick H. Braun, The Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, for plaintiff.

Thomas S. Tisdale, Jr., Young, Clement, Rivers & Tisdale, Charleston, S.C., V. Bryan Medlock, Jr., Roy H. Hardin, Richards, Harris, Medlock & Andrews, Dallas, Tex., William O. Fifield, William Baumgartner, Blair White, John M. George, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., O. George Everbach, Gen. Counsel, Kimberly-Clark Corp., Dallas, Tex., for defendant.

ORDER

HAWKINS, Chief Judge.

Prior to November 1982, the two major players in the disposable diaper market, the Procter & Gamble Company (P & G) and Kimberly-Clark Corporation (K-C), told the consuming public that a thicker disposable diaper was a better, more absorbent disposable diaper. In November 1982, two inventors at P & G set in motion a chain of events which would radically alter the message which was sent to the public by these two companies...

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