Saturday, October 24, 2009

City, Tavern in dueling lawsuits

The question of who owns the famous restaurant name Tavern on the Green has become a legal football that has just landed in the lap of a bankruptcy judge.
As expected, on Wednesday the city sued the operators of Tavern on the Green, the LeRoy family, in U.S. bankruptcy court claiming that they had no right to seek trademark protection for the famed eatery's name because it belongs to the city.

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