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https://www.wdrb.com/news/zaxb...d1-6fb5af4eb0f6.html LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Zaxby's is suing Louisville-based Joella's Hot Chicken over it's "confusingly similar" logo, according to recently filed court documents. The Georgia-based chicken restaurant filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Joella's Jan. 22 in Atlanta. The company alleges that Joella's Hot Chicken logo is "confusingly similar" to Zaxby's trademarked logos...  Zaxby's is on right ________________________ God spelled backwards is dog | ||
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Zaxby’s will win that. ——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1 | |||
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I think Joella’s will win. OP, please follow and let us knohe outcome. ========================================== Just my 2¢ ____________________________ Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right ♫♫♫ | |||
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one is a rooster while the other is a hen. ---------------------- Let's Go Brandon! | |||
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One is a caricature of a chicken. The other is a silhouette of a chicken. I don't find them so similar as to be confusing at all. That said, Zaxby's is likely powerful enough to make Joella's fold. "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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I'm not a lawyer or expert in trademark law, but it's my layman understanding that companies and corporate lawyers can feel somewhat obligated to file these semi-valid infringement cases as a means of demonstrating a healthy defense of their trademark, which apparently strengthens their position in any later, more valid case. Otherwise, the other party in a later lawsuit can claim that they hadn't taken infringement seriously in the past, or the like. (Sort of an "enforce it or lose it" kind of situation, I guess.) That is, they don't do it intending to win, they're just demonstrating that they're taking defending their logo seriously. This even sometimes results in some of these "shotgun approach" situations, where a company named something like "Mountaintop Inc." will file against two dozen other companies with the term "Mountaintop" in their names (Mountaintop Foods, Mountaintop Racing, Mountaintop Horse Riding, etc.), even though they fully intend not to win or pursue it very vigorously, just as a "mass show of force" in protecting their trademark. I hope a member of the Sigforum Bar comes along to shed more light on this, as they can obviously explain it way better than I can. (And I may have it back asswards.) | |||
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The rooster has a webbed foot and is white. I’ll eat either or! I like yardbird. | |||
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I'd put money on Zaxby's with this one. Very similar lawsuit was filed a few years ago with another Kentucky based company, West 6th Brewing. It was settled out of court before the hammer dropped. https://www.brewbound.com/news...ve-trademark-dispute | |||
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Too bad that David Attenborough isn't the decider! | |||
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Zaxby's loses because any confusion is a result of both logos being unoriginal, unremarkable, and unmemorable. Seriously, I've driven by Zaxby's restaurants and signs hundreds of times and didn't even realize they had a logo. It looks like someone's grade school kid came up with it. It should never have left it's spot hanging on the fridge. | |||
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Not confusing at all. Another reason not to eat at Zaxby’s. --------------------------- My hovercraft is full of eels. | |||
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Who used their logo first? Shouldn’t that be a factor in the lawsuit? --------------------- LGBFJB "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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I eat at Zaxbys once or twice a month and if you didn't tell me which one of the two logos was theirs, I would have a hard time guessing. I don't necessarily think that speaks to the confusion and maybe Just the overall weakness of the Zaxbys logo... | |||
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This 100% | |||
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Never heard of Zaxby's but I hope they lose. I agree that one logo is a chicken and the other looks like Foghorn Leghorn. _____________________ Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you. | |||
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Zaxby's trademark covers all images of chickens and also any use of circles and the use of either the color red or white. The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. | |||
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They are not remotely close. | |||
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Love me some Zaxby’s, but they don’t look similar to me. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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That's where they messed up. They should have had it cover any animal, any shape, and any color. | |||
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“They got the golden arches. Mine is the golden arcs. They got the Big Mac. I got the Big Mick. They use a sesame seed bun. My buns have no seeds” You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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