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Tue 10 Oct 2007Jacobs say rival's copycat packets take the biscuitJacobs has accused rival biscuit firm McVities of "living dangerously" in a High Court row over fig rolls and cream crackers.One hundred thousand packets of McVities biscuits are at the centre of the dispute which isn't over how they get the figs into fig rolls but about how the biscuits are packaged.