Dispute over Ownership of the ‘Killie Pie’

A legal dispute has erupted between Kilmarnock Football Club and a local firm of bakers over ownership rights to the name of a popular football snack – the ‘Killie Pie’, reports the BBC.

The steak and gravy pie is sold at the club’s grounds and was apparently named the best pie in the Scottish Premiere League in 2015. Since 2003 it has been made by Brownings Bakery, and the company has now applied to trademark the name. According to the firm’s managing director, the name of the pie belongs to the bakery and they will be asking the football club to not use it anymore.

However, since 1998 the trademark ‘Killie’ has belonged to Kilmarnock FC, and the club reportedly intends to take legal action to prevent Brownings from gaining ownership of the Killie Pie name. It claims that the pie was originally produced by another baker and that Brownings has only been given permission to use the name since 2003.

The bakery says that until the dispute is settled it will continue to make the pies to the same recipe but will rename them Brownings Pies, the BBC reports.

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Source:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-36034615