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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedHooters sues WingHouse, alleges trade-dress copy
Nation's Restaurant News, Feb 24, 2003
ORLANDO, FLA. -- Hooters of America, Atlanta-based operator and franchisor of more than 310 Hooters restaurants, is suing 10unit chain WingHouse of Florida Inc. for alleged trade-dress infringement.
According to the Orlando Business Journal, Hooters' civil suit in U.S. District Court charges that Largo, Fla.-based WingHouse copied the Hooters format by employing buxom women wearing uniform shorts and tank tops and using a decor scheme including wood accents, Christmas lights, wood-weave plates, a sports-bar atmosphere and "identical" tables and chairs.
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A WingHouse official was quoted as disputing that Hooters could prove trade-dress infringement, which requires proof that customers believed the two concepts were related.
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