A potentially important product design trademark case is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court involving those chocolate covered bready-sticks. Ezaki Glico Kabushiki Kaisha v. Lotte International America Corp., Docket No. 20-1817 (Supreme Court 2021).
Megastar pastry chef Christina Tosi and her team at Milk Bar have filed a complaint alleging that a Chicago dessert bar and restaurant has infringed their name and logo. The federal complaint claimed the owners of JoJo’s Milk Bar, which opened in February in River North, “deliberately” and “willfully” confused customers and the media into thinking the Chicago bar was associated with Tosi’s.
Shogoin Yatsuhashi Sohonten (Shogoin Sanno-cho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City) declared that the year it was founded in 1689 was a lie, and rival company Izutsu Yatsuhashi Honpo (Shijo Aguru, Kawabata-dori, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City) announced on the 4th. A lawsuit was filed with the Kyoto District Court seeking an injunction on the contents of the publication.