The Great Cookie Design Battle of 2010 Has Begun

If you thought design-based intellectual property rights were merely for the fashion and tech industries, you are as wrong as wrong can be. There is currently a legal war raging between the Pennsylvania-based restaurant chain Eat’n Park and Cookies by Design in Plano, Texas. The issue? According to the Dallas Morning News, Eat’n Park has discovered that Cookies by Design has been selling a cookie that features a smiley face, one that the company feels is “‘confusingly similar’ to its own,” as well as using the name “Smiling Faces” or variations