GREENSBORO, N.C., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The heirs of author Ernest Hemingway have filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the owner of Hemingway's Downtown in Greensboro, N.C.
Hemingway's owner Jeff Schleuning told the Greensboro News Record he named his swanky new club after the English bulldog he had as a boy -- not the author.
But the attorney who filed the suit Friday on behalf of the Hemingway family said it doesn't matter.
"Regardless of who the establishment was named after, it really would not matter," attorney John F. Morrow Jr. told the newspaper. "The question is whether there is consumer confusion over the source of the name."
Schleuning said naming his club for after the author would have been ironic.
"We're actually the kind of bar he would despise coming to," Schleuning said. "From what I know of him, he liked little dive-type bars."
