{"id":150894,"date":"2010-01-07T16:23:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100106\/1042477637.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-07T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:23:37","slug":"bakery-claims-trademark-on-smiley-face-cookies-sues-competing-cookie-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/150894","title":{"rendered":"Bakery Claims Trademark On Smiley Face Cookies; Sues Competing Cookie Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Montgomery alerts us to yet another case of trademark law being taken to ridiculous ends.  Apparently a restaurant\/bakery is claiming a trademark on putting a smiley face on a cookie and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/localnews\/stories\/DN-cookiesuit_06met.ART.State.Edition1.4bbe32c.html\" >suing a cookie store for selling similar cookies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nA key ingredient of Eat&#8217;n Park&#8217;s case is the lawsuit&#8217;s Exhibit A, which shows a circle with two round eyes, a dot for a nose and a perky smile.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Time to start selling cookies with sad faces, and saying it&#8217;s all Eat&#8217;n Park&#8217;s fault that the cookies are so sad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100106\/1042477637.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100106\/1042477637.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100106\/1042477637&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=ce82ad0648ec8c84b4fc29e82895a76a&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=ce82ad0648ec8c84b4fc29e82895a76a&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=83ItHj6asPQ:6PDhovDJ7ys:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=83ItHj6asPQ:6PDhovDJ7ys:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=83ItHj6asPQ:6PDhovDJ7ys:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/83ItHj6asPQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Montgomery alerts us to yet another case of trademark law being taken to ridiculous ends. Apparently a restaurant\/bakery is claiming a trademark on putting a smiley face on a cookie and is suing a cookie store for selling similar cookies: A key ingredient of Eat&#8217;n Park&#8217;s case is the lawsuit&#8217;s Exhibit A, which shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}