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The Texas Buc-Ee’s chain of convenience stores has filed another action this year against a competitor.
Buc-Ee’s continues the violation of Barc-Ee, based in Missouri, for the violation of brands, according to a trial brought by the American district court of the western district of Missouri Southern Division.
Barc-ee, which is temporarily closed, according to its website, Describes itself as “a unique stop with coffee and food, a dog courtyard and a mini-city on the theme of the west of children”.
Its owner, John Lopez, recognized the trial and other problems for the company on social networks.

An illustration in the BUC-EE trial against Barc-Ee shows the word brands side by side. (United States District Court Western District of Missouri Southern Division / Fox News)

BUC-EE says in a trial that the Barc-EE logo breaks its brand. (United States District Court Western District of Missouri Southern Division / Fox News)
“Although I prefer that my commercial challenges come with a side of the coffee rather than a quote to appear, this is only part of the entrepreneurial game,” he said in a March 24 on March 24 Facebook post. “My legal team believes that we do not legally get the brands.”
“The remarks of a legal team specializing in brands also believe that I could win if it was judged, but it may not be worth it,” he continued. “Beavers are cunning creatures. Very rare a small dog fights in a large beaver and comes out in the lead.”
A few days earlier, he posted that the Marshfield, Missouri, The location was temporarily closed for a “brilliant”.
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Employees are preparing food inside a BUC-EE convenience store on June 12, 2024 in Luling, Texas. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
The trial, obtained by Fox Business, indicates that “Barc-Ee” deliberately announced, marketed, promoted, offered for sale, sold, distributed, manufactured and / or imported, and continues to advertise, market, promote, offer, sell, distribute, manufacture and / or import, products and services. “”
The costume also alleges the name, the style of curved word and the cartoons of cartoons of a “brown animal with a red tongue and a black nose carrying a hat on a yellow circle with a circular black outline” imitates the trademarks of Buc-Ee.
There is a location of BUC-EE in Springfield, Missouri, which is about 17 miles from the address indicated for Barc-Ee. The location of Springfield de Buc-Ee opened in December 2023, According to the city’s website.
“BUC-EE’s has invested massively in innovation throughout the company to provide the best products and the best quality experience to our customers,” Buc-EE said in a press release at Fox Business. “Buc-ee will not be an inactive spectator while others break the intellectual property rights This BUC-EE worked so hard to develop. “”

The Texas based convenience store and the gas stop, BUC-EE, have become the largest convenience store in the world with more than 100 gas pumps and a 75,000 square feet store in Luling, Texas. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
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In January, BUC-EE brought legal action against Texas Gaz Station Super feeds the allegations of copyright violation, saying that the Super Fuelle logo is too similar to the Buc-EE logo.
BUC-EE has more than 50 stores through Missouri, Texas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Colorado, according to the trial.
Landon Mion de Fox Business contributed to this report.