Lawyer Takes Dismissal Of ‘Goats On A Grass Roof’ Trade Dress Row To High Court

Mealey's (May 1, 2020, 7:59 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An attorney who twice sought cancellation of a Wisconsin restaurant’s registered trade dress, which incorporates live goats, filed a petition for certiorari over the dismissal of his latest petition on April 15, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to address the difference between establishing standing to seek cancellation based on alleged disparagement from a merits claim that a trademark is disparaging (Todd C. Bank v. Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik Inc., No. 19-1232, U.S. Sup.)....