SKIRMISHER

If these people fighting over a cross aren’t careful, they’ll end up giving the Vatican a boner.

Johnson & Johnson filed suit against the American Red Cross and some of its licensing partners claiming the charity misused the cross design that is its signature emblem, which also appears on J&J’s first-aid kits and bandages.

The health-care products company alleges that the Red Cross licensed the eponymous design to for-profit companies that sell medical products — such as first-aid kits and hand sanitizers — and infringed J&J’s trademark. The suit was filed yesterday in Southern District Court in New York.

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