If you were lucky enough to indulge in a Unicorn Frappuccino from Starbucks back in April, congratulations. You consumed the world’s most well-known (and sweetest) unicorn drink on the market. But it’s apparently not the only one according to a new lawsuit by The End Brooklyn, a coffee bar in New York that has sold its own “unicorn” latte since December.
A small New York City cafe is taking on coffee giant Starbucks in a legal war of the unicorns. The End Brooklyn in a new lawsuit accuses Starbucks of trademark infringement, arguing that the color-changing “Unicorn Frappuccino” recently introduced by the Seattle chain overshadows the smaller company’s health-conscious “Unicorn Latte.” The End started selling the Unicorn Latte in December, and has had a trademark application for the drink name pending since January, the company said in a Brooklyn federal court complaint filed Wednesday. Starbucks launched the Unicorn Frappuccino in April as a limited-run item. The sweet offering quickly …
Vermont-based brewing company Keurig is reportedly being slapped with a lawsuit two years after one of its coffee machines sparked a costly fire at an Upton home. Boston-based insurer Liberty Mutual claims the coffee machine is to blame for the $100,000 in damages to the home. The lawsuit was filed in Suffolk Superior Court, reports the Boston Globe.
Caffeine is a stimulant, cannabis is a psychoactive drug—and Starbucks doesn’t want anyone to confuse its product with something that promotes a mostly-illegal substance. According to Law360 , a U.S. District Court judge in New York has ordered an Oregon artist named James Landgraf to repay Starbucks $410,800 — $300,000 for copyright infringement, $99,000 for trademark infringement and $11,580 …
Starbucks’ latest court battle involves an unlikely subject: bongs. The coffee giant has prevailed in a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit involving a line of bongs (err, “water pipes”) mimicking Starbucks Frappuccino cups. Bearing the name “Dabuccino,” the glass vessels feature a mouthpiece that resembles the company’s signature green straws and a logo that looks just like the …
Starbucks’ legal department ought to be sipping celebratory Frappuccinos right now, because a proposed class-action lawsuit against the coffee giant was just dismissed. Filed back in May in California federal court, the suit alleged Starbucks misrepresents the size of its iced beverages: While the menu advertises a tall as 12 ounces and a grande as 16 ounces, et al, the plaintiffs said that …
Starbucks’ lawyers are working overtime these days: Back in March the coffee giant was sued for selling “underfilled” lattes, and now a copycat lawsuit has been filed claiming the company is ripping off customers who purchase iced drinks. The class-action suit “claims Starbucks’ cold drinks are almost half ice and the coffee chain misrepresents the fluid ounces of its popular, and profitable, …
Put on your pearls and clutch hard: Starbucks has come under fire after being accused of under filling their lattes in an effort to save money on milk, as KQED reports. The class action suit, filed by one San Diego resident and one San Francisco resident, claims the coffee giant “cheats purchasers by providing less fluid ounces in their lattes than represented.” In fact, the suit accuses the …