2 Indiana Bakeries Go to Court Over ‘Square Donuts’

Two Indiana bakeries share a love for four-sided doughnuts but one of them believes there is room for only one square doughnut-maker.
2 Indiana Bakeries Go to Court Over ‘Square Donuts’
A square doughnut sold at Family Express in Highland, Ind. Joe Puche/Chicago Tribune via AP
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MERRILLVILLE, Ind.—Two Indiana bakeries share a love for four-sided doughnuts but one of them believes there is room for only one square doughnut-maker.

According to the Post-Tribune, Valparaiso-based Family Express asked a court Thursday to declare that it can continue to call its products “Square Donuts.”

But Terre Haute-based Square Donuts, which has been making its doughnuts since the 1960s and has nine locations, wants Family Express to cut it out.

A sign of Square Donuts in Terre Haute, Ind., March 26, 2016. (Austen Leake/The Tribune-Star via AP)
A sign of Square Donuts in Terre Haute, Ind., March 26, 2016. Austen Leake/The Tribune-Star via AP