A local food truck is facing a lawsuit from the Kellogg Company.
The L’Eggo My Eggroll food truck has been sued for trademark infringement by the Kellogg Company.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Kellogg demanded that the food truck operators stop using L’Eggo in the name of their food truck.
The food truck did not stop using the L’Eggo mark and Kellogg’s is now seeking all profits the food truck has made from the mark and wants the food truck to pay its lawyer fees.
L’Eggo My Eggroll released the following statement regarding the lawsuit on its Facebook page.
Good afternoon, good people! We would like to clear up a few topics that have been floating around the media that had been posted in this law suit that are very untrue false statements.
- The ignoring Kelloggs… we have sent all information to our lawyer from the very start. They were always in contact.
- We are legally allowed by law to run and work our truck. This is not an illegal truck and we will do so until otherwise stated by our lawyer.
- The “threats and demands” our lawyer and myself “Gabryel” talked with the lawyer about negotiations. This was meaning offers to not just close down completely. (Why would we? By court of law we haven’t done anything wrong) they waited until our opening week after being closed all winter to offer us to close down after only being open one year. (Playing nasty) kelloggs was aware we close in the winter so to offer to close us down the week we open was extreme considering full booking.
- We did seek legal advice and had a lawyer make our llc before opening. Giving a fun play on words.
- Yes this is a billion dollar company who is going to sell our community lies and paint us like we are bad people for not taking 5k to close down our llc business for our whole season. As a food truck we are only open seasonly. We also have bills to pay and mouths to feed, as well as employees to pay.. We are opening up to speak with all media with our lawyers as of this week.
- Kelloggs didn’t want to work with us. They chose to take this route and either shut us down or sue us.. we stand firm knowing we are in fact a way smaller company but we will not accept cooperate bullying.
- We will sell our wonderful fresh food (fresh cut veggies) and grilled fresh meat to our supporters and community along with friends and family and we will let the laws and lawyers work themselves out. This case is between our lawyer and ourselves.
- We have attached a piece of the document stating that information was not true and as well can also be looked up online.
Thank you to our friends and family as well as our local foodies who support us during this crazy part of life! If u know us personally which a lot of you do then you know are intentions are always in hearts and we will not take this bullying or trolling.
We will not be responding to any information regarding our case as our lawyer advised and we will not be responding to negative nasty mean comments either.
Thank you Bobby & Gabryel