MONROE, La. — A federal court in Louisiana granted a Louisiana pasta company Fasta Pasta’s motion to dismiss trademark infringement claims by a similarly named pasta restaurant chain based in Kosovo, Albania: Pasta Fasta. The European restaurant chain of 10 restaurants alleges the Louisiana business wants to misappropriate its brand and bar its entry into the U.S. market. The complaint fails to allege facts to support the inference that the Louisiana company used and registered the same or similar trademark to block the Albanian chain’s planned entry into the United States.
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