Tootsie Roll Industries Claims Dog Treat Branding Illegally Uses Its Trademarks
Agriculture your username 6 hours ago Tootsie Roll Industries LLC filed a complaint in the Northern District of Illinois last week claiming that Lafayette Bay Products LLC, which does business as Spunky Pup, breached its Tootsie Roll and Tootsie Pops registered trademarks by selling Tootsie Pup. The plaintiff alleged that the name is “confusingly similar” and that the product copies Tootsie Roll’s trade dress. The plaintiff said that Spunky Pup began selling the product at some point during 2020. Tootsie filed the lawsuit “to halt and prevent consumer confusion, mistake, and decepti...