Waste removal services have helped solve that problem. They pick up poop at homes, neighborhoods, parks and businesses for a fee and sometimes install waste stations in parks. But two of those companies are in disagreement.
Pooper Trooper’s founder began working full time in 2003, gathering poop with a rake and a bucket and visiting homes in his green Ford Ranger, according toThe Pooper Trooper name was trademarked in September 2006.offers services in Idaho and Spokane, Wash., and recently expanded to the Seattle area. Scoop Troop’s trademark request was denied last September after a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office examiner ruled that its name sounded similar to PoopScoop Troopers, a company in Woodbridge, Va.
In April, Pooper Trooper sent a cease-and-desist letter to Scoop Troop, which in May rejected Pooper Trooper’s requests to change its name and denied the infringement allegations, according to the lawsuit.that the company had more than 1,500 customers and was projected to make about $1.4 million this year.“The acts of Scoop Troop have caused and, unless restrained by this Court, will continue to cause serious and irreparable harm to Pooper Trooper,” the lawsuit states.