The Lake Jackson-based company and Kingsley Blancher jointly announced in a Friday court filing that they had reached a settlement agreement and moved to dismiss all claims, with each side bearing its own costs. No details of the settlement were disclosed.<\/p>\n
When Buc-ee\u2019s originally filed the suit in May 2025 in federal court in San Antonio, it didn\u2019t know\u00a0Blancher\u2019s identity. It alleged that a John Doe, doing business as Crab.Rangoons2, was selling infringing merchandise on Shopify and previously on Etsy.<\/p>\n
Buc-ee\u2019s got court authority to subpoena the websites and Meta Platforms, owner of Instagram, where the allegedly counterfeit merchandise was promoted, in an effort to learn\u00a0Blancher\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n
After the filing of the complaint, the San Antonio Express-News reached out to the defendant through a contact page on Crab Ragoons\u2019\u00a0Shopify page<\/a>, but got no response. The alleged offending merchandise appeared to have been taken down after the message was sent.<\/p>\n Buc-ee\u2019s amended the suit in November to add\u00a0Blancher\u2019s name, albeit with his first and last name reversed.<\/p>\n In an answer to the complaint, Blancher denied Buc-ee\u2019s allegations and offered up various defenses\u00a0\u2014 including that there was no likelihood of confusing his merchandise and the retailer\u2019s.<\/p>\n Messages on the allegedly offending merchandise appear to have been written in Persian.<\/p>\n One sticker, according to a translation using artificial intelligence, says \u201cLala Allah Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah\u201d and \u201cjihad\u201d and \u201cMonotheism.\u201d Another says, \u201cThere is no god, God, Muhammad is the Messenger of God.\u201d It also says \u201cjihad\u201d and \u201cTawhid,\u201d which means \u201cthe oneness of God\u201d in Islam.<\/p>\n In its amended complaint, Buc-ee\u2019s alleged the defendant\u2019s bandannas\u00a0referenced its\u00a0famous brisket: the \u201cfresh brisket on the board headband.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Buc-ee\u2019s sought to recover unspecified damages for the alleged counterfeiting, infringement, unfair competition and unjust enrichment. It also wanted the damages tripled.<\/p>\n The two sides\u00a0engaged in initial settlement discussions after the suit was filed and exchanged written offers in April. The parties continued negotiating in the ensuing months before finalizing an agreement.<\/p>\n Neither Austin attorney Alexandra Bistline<\/a>, who represents Buc-ee\u2019s, nor Robert\u00a0McRae<\/a>, a San Antonio lawyer representing Blancher, immediately responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n Buc-ee\u2019s has waged numerous trademark fights to protect its brand in recent years. It\u00a0sued an Ohio convenience store last month, alleging its cartoon beaver mascot too closely resembles the Texas chain\u2019s furry-faced logo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lake Jackson-based company and Kingsley Blancher jointly announced in a Friday court filing that they had reached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-419489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}