{"id":18261,"date":"2025-01-27T18:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/buc-ees-suing-gas-station-with-two-stores-for-ill-gotten-gain-through-use-of-similar-logo\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T18:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:15:14","slug":"buc-ees-suing-gas-station-with-two-stores-for-ill-gotten-gain-through-use-of-similar-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/buc-ees-suing-gas-station-with-two-stores-for-ill-gotten-gain-through-use-of-similar-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"Buc-ee\u2019s suing gas station with two stores for \u201cill-gotten gain\u201d\u00a0 through use of similar logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Buc-ee\u2019s is claiming copyright infringement against a small gas station in the Dallas area due to their similar logo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buc-ee\u2019s filed a lawsuit in US District Court, claiming the logo used by Super Fuels is too similar to the Buc-ee\u2019s Beaver. The Super Fuels logo is a brown dog in a cape.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit states that the Super Fuels logo features an\u00a0 \u201canthropomorphic and cartoon representation of a smiling animal that closely resembles a beaver, which is similarly positioned in a right-facing angle and is depicted in front of a circular background,\u201d reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/bucees-beaver-lawsuit-super-fuels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox 4 News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-11.41.45-AM-600x400.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-11.41.45-AM-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-11.41.45-AM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-11.41.45-AM-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-11.41.45-AM-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-11.41.45-AM-696x464.png 696w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-11.41.45-AM-1068x712.png 1068w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-27-at-11.41.45-AM.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The suit also points out that the Super Fuels dog is wearing similar clothing and has a similar expression. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/buc-ees-suing-gas-station-with-two-stores-for-ill-gotten-gain-through-use-of-similar-logo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buc-ee\u2019s <\/a>claims that the similarity of the logo may confuse customers, leading to a loss in sales for Buc-ees\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The suit calls for a permanent injunction to stop Super Fuels from using the dog logo. The suit also demands that Super Fuels pay Buc-ee\u2019s for any \u201cill-gotten gains,\u201d and that the company destroy all signs, packaging, and other merchandise featuring the dog logo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Super Fuels owns two locations \u2013 one in Dallas, Texas and one in nearby Irving.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Buc-ee&#039;s suing a Dallas gas station for trademark infringement\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vTr74bEMVOg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/buc-ees-suing-gas-station-with-two-stores-for-ill-gotten-gain-through-use-of-similar-logo\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buc-ee\u2019s is claiming copyright infringement against a small gas station in the Dallas area due to their similar logo.\u00a0 Buc-ee\u2019s filed a lawsuit in US District Court, claiming the logo used by Super Fuels is too similar to the Buc-ee\u2019s Beaver. The Super Fuels logo is a brown dog in a cape.\u00a0 The lawsuit states&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}