In a court battle over the rights to a cell phone app that converts a phone into a virtual glass of milk, a federal judge in Harrisburg has ruled that the creator of the iMilk app may pursue claims against Hershey Co. for copyright infringement, trade dress and tortious interference.

Neither side of a trade dress case is happy with a federal judge’s order that a corporate plaintiff and its attorneys who acted with “dishonesty” and in “bad faith” pay the defendant companies roughly $379,000 in sanctions.

A federal judge has thrown out a trade dress suit that the manufacturer of Dixie Cups filed against Huhtamaki Americas, the maker of Chinet, over the design of an insulated paper cup. U.S. District Judge Timothy C.