Tea companies spar over use of word 'queen'
Two tea companies with similar nomenclature will settle their differences in court over the use of the word "queen". Queen Mary Tea, which operates the Queen Mary Tea Room in Seattle, filed a lawsuit against The Queens' Tea, a tea company from Salt Lake City, claiming it infringed on its trademark. However, the term is used in a slightly different context by The Queens' Tea, which was founded by a same-sex couple and refers to an effeminate homosexual. The plaintiff also alleges to have suffered a hate campaign for being supposedly anti-LGBT. The Queens' Tea has ceased online trading until a federal judge rules on the matter in the months ahead.