Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe GLENDALE, Calif., Sept. 16 (UPI) -- The California-based International House of Pancakes is suing a Missouri prayer group for allegedly using the restaurant's IHOP acronym. The Glendale-based chain eatery filed a federal lawsuit in California alleging Kansas City's International House of Prayer "selected and adopted the International House of Prayer name, knowing it would be abbreviated IHOP. IHOP-KC intended to misappropriate the fame and notoriety of the household name IHOP to help promote and make recognizable their religious organization," CNN reported Thursday. Advertisement The restaurant said using the IHOP acronym infringes on its trademark. The suit is seeking to stop the prayer group from using the acronym. The International House of Prayer had not yet responded to the lawsuit Thursday.
