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Del Monte Corp., et al. Vs. CA, et al.

DEL MONTE CORPORATION and PHILIPPINE PACKING CORPORATION, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and SUNSHINE SAUCE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, respondents. Bito, Misa & Lozada for petitioners. Reynaldo F. Singson for private respondent.

G.R. No. L-78325 | 1990-01-25

D E C I S I O N

CRUZ, J:

The petitioners are questioning the decision of the respondent court upholding the dismissal by the trial court of their complaint against the private respondent for infringement of trademark and unfair competition.

Petitioner Del Monte Corporation is a foreign company organized under the laws of the United States and not engaged in business in the Philippines. Both the Philippines and the United States are signatories to the Convention of Paris of September 27, 1965, which grants to the nationals of the parties rights and advantages which their own nationals enjoy for the repression of acts of infringement and...