Anonymous says,
Apparently the word "dishes" is a federal trademark, and the Brooklyn restaurant "Little Dishes" was sued, renaming themselves "Little D Eatery". Quote from the owner: "As a new small business, we did not have the resources to fight to keep the 'Dishes' part of our name…"
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Grayson says,
I can't figure out how to direct link to TESS results, but the serial number for this registration is 75440805. Here's one link.
Although I agree that it was stupid to allow registration of a single generalized common word as a trademark in the first place, once that's done the trademark stands. If the mark was held by a company selling dinnerware it might be different, but the original mark for "Dishes" is also for a NY restaurant. Therefore there might be some reasonable basis for confusion. Bobby Flay would probably have a case against anyone opening a "Mesa 'anything'" restaurant, but not an art gallery for similar reasons.
