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Warby’s Fast Food: Can Arby’s Take a Joke?

By Tim Sitzmann on March 29, 2018
Posted in Branding, Infringement, Squirrelly Thoughts, Trademarks

Maybe you’ve heard of Warby Parker. The eye wear company has become quite successful in a previously monolithic industry. But a tongue-in-cheek advertising effort for a new onion ring monacle might just cross the line into provoking a trademark feud. See, Exhibit 1, below:

And, for the main course:

Even if Warby’s doesn’t actually…

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