20 November, 2019
An Atlanta-based small business owner tussles with a national big box store over defending it’s food brand.
copycats, customer confusion, food, infringement, restaurant, trademark monitoring
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21 August, 2019
Los Angeles-based salad giant Sweetgreen is a chain of over 90 healthy eateries, selling salads in a fast-casual setting since 2007. In 2016, two entrepreneurs in Minnesota started a fresh produce business, My Sweet Greens, and their name has become the latest problem for their growing business.
copycats, customer confusion, famous trademarks, infringement, restaurant
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11 June, 2019
Upstate New Yorkers are more than familiar with the concept known as lake effect — as in lake effect snow. Now, lake effect is the subject of a trademark infringement case in Buffalo.
copycats, customer confusion, infringement, restaurant
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30 April, 2019
In 2008, renowned pastry chef Christina Tosi founded Milk Bar bakery and opened her first shop in New York City. The famous, celebrity-endorsed bakery now has 16 locations. In March 2019, a restaurant by the name of JoJo’s Milk Bar opened in River North, Chicago and is now facing a trademark infringement and unfair competition lawsuit brought by Tosi.
copycats, customer confusion, infringement, restaurant
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23 April, 2019
Florida Avenue Eats is a new restaurant on one of Tampa’s longest stretching business roads, which is also home to the long-established Florida Avenue Brewing Company about a mile and a half away. The owner of Florida Avenue Brewing Co. is worried that customers will confuse the two establishments.
copycats, customer confusion, infringement, restaurant
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