The launch of FIZZ Social Media deals with the Instacart Grocery Grocery giants and the Party Planning App Merest for breach of brands, the company announced on Thursday. Earlier this week, Instacart launched a new beverage delivery application and party snacks called Fizz and announced that Partiful had incorporated the Fizz directly on its platform.
Founded in 2020, Fizz is a social networking application that focuses on Gen Z available on more than 400 campuses.
The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday at the US District Court for the northern California region, seeks a jury trial, suspended exemption, compensation and judicial decision prohibiting Instacart and partial use of the name “Fizz” in relation to social planning services.
Instacart and Meniful did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comments.
In the lawsuit, Fizz states that he has used the “Fizz” brand since January 2022 and was deposited for the registration of the brand in December 2021. The start accuses Instacart and a partnership of the Community Law trade mark, the federal breach of the trademarks and the trademarks of the trademarks, the federal breach of trademarks, California.
“This new Fizz app by Instacart and Petoriful is an obvious attempt to abuse the goodwill that the plaintiff has been carefully developed through the continuous use of Fizzes between the demographic Gen-Z,” the lawsuit said. “Together, Instacart and Metiful compete with the plaintiff in the basic market planning market for the demographic Gen-Z.
Fizz argues that Instacart and its bias knowingly launched the new application with the same name for the same demographic gen Z, creating a possibility of confusion between customers who may believe that the new order service is connected or adopted by Fizz.
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The start also claims that Instacart and bias exploit the brand recognition as a well -known social platform for Gen Z.
“The plaintiff is informed and believes and then claims that the accused Instacart had a bad faith intent to benefit from the Fizz signals when he recorded the domain name
In addition, the lawsuit claims that with Penable is directly competing in the design of the events and that the company is now using Fizz’s name to confuse demographic gen Z after failing to “win the Gen Z market through fair competition”.
The lawsuit announced today is not the first Fizz brush with legal action, as starting with an opponent Sidechat in 2023 for unfair competition practices.
