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Gdzie Bedziesz Pamietac Mame Pierogi Palace of Oil City, PA Oil City is our only location.   Click here for map. Welcome to the Pierogi Palace pierogi@usachoice.net      www.pierogipalace.com where the pierogi are not your typical commercial food item. They have evolved from a Polish family's traditional recipes which were handed down from generation to generation. In addition to the traditional, we will be adding gourmet fillings to our pierogi for the contemporary palate. Our pierogi are made fresh with quality ingredients. After cooking they are packaged and frozen for freshness. They are approximately 4" in size and are easily re-heated by microwave or by frying. We will be offering other types of Polish food in the near future... holiday breads and cakes, kapusta, golabki and more. "Special Orders" are available for any occasion. So, if your palate is craving some really authentic Polish food, try some of our pierogi and let us know what you think of them. We believe that when you do try them, "you'll remember mama's....".

In July 1999 I opened my business as "Millie's Pierogi Palace". My reason for the choice of name was to give a little honor to my Mother. The name was registered with the Pennsylvania State Department, which authorized its usage. Prior to registering "Millie's Pierogi Palace", I checked the Internet using a number of search engines and found no other business with this name or anything similar. So, I proceeded to develop my web site using "Millie’s Pierogi Palace".

In March 2000 I received a certified letter from Mr. Donald S. Holland, an attorney with the firm of Holland & Bonzagni, Registered Patent Attorneys, in Longmeadow and Springfield, Massachusetts dated March 20, 2000. The letter was on behalf of his firm’s client Garan Enterprises, Inc. of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts that does business as "Millie’s Pierogi". The General Manager of Garan Enterprises, Inc. is Ann E. Kerigan.

In his letter Mr. Holland demanded that I stop using the mark "Millie's Pierogi Palace" because it was "confusingly similar" to his client's marks of "Millie's" and "Millie's Pierogi". Also, he said "...Your colorable unauthorized use of "MILLIE'S PIEROGI PALACE" clearly constitutes infringement of our client's trademark rights; also it constitutes unfair competition by misrepresenting the origin of your product...." He further said that "… the risk to Millie’s Pierogi Palace (including Millie’s Pierogi Palace’s own attorney’s fees, which would not be recoverable in any instance) would probably be a minimum of $100,000…".

That led me to seek legal counsel. The advice I received was that the least expensive avenue to pursue would be to change the name of my business. Because I did not have the financial resources to challenge Garan Enterprises’ allegations, I decided to change the name. It cost me significant personal trauma and financial expense.

If you would like to see and compare the marks for yourself please click Marks. To see Mr. Holland’s letter of March 20, 2000, click Letter.

Joseph C. Brozeski

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