{"id":535,"date":"2011-06-07T10:44:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T18:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2011-06-07T10:44:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T18:44:29","slug":"never-ending-story-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/litigation\/case-law\/never-ending-story-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Ending Story Ends!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last December, we commented on a trademark infringement case, <a title=\"A Never Ending Story?\" href=\"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/a-never-ending-story\/\">A Never Ending Story?<\/a>, which involved Darden&#8217;s <em>Olive Garden <\/em>restaurant accusing rival <em>Red Lobster<\/em> of infringing the Never Ending Pasta Bowl\u00ae federally registered trademark through the latter&#8217;s &#8220;Never Ending Shrimp&#8221; promotion. \u00a0The parties have now settled on a permanent\u00a0injunction which entails Red Lobster will <em>never again <\/em>use the offending designation &#8220;Never Ending&#8221; for its food-related promotions on any materials, websites, etc. \u00a0No answer, defenses, or actual damages were claimed, but it is interesting that Darden seems to have been granted a monopoly on the &#8220;Never Ending&#8221; adjective in the restaurant business, regardless of how descriptive of the actual product offering it is;\u00a0Did Red Lobster yield too soon for a crustacean?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trademark infringement case, A Never Ending Story?, which involved Darden&#8217;s Olive Garden restaurant accusing rival Red Lobster of infringing the Never Ending Pasta Bowl\u00ae federally registered trademark through the latter&#8217;s &#8220;Never Ending Shrimp&#8221; promotion.  The parties have now settled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,15,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xROl-8D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}