A nine-year legal battle involving the goats on the roof at Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant Restaurant & Butik was ended by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The court decided it would not hear an appeal by New York-based attorney Todd C. Bank against the “goats on a roof of grass” trademark held by the Sister Bay restaurant.
Goats spend the summers on the sod-covered roof, and their presence has made the restaurant a nationally known tourist attraction; they even have their own “Goat Cam” on the restaurant’s website and are featured in a “Weekly Does of Goat” series on YouTube.com. Al Johnson’s was awarded the trademark in 1996.
