A Cornwall deli owner has said she is taking legal action against publishing giant Bloomsbury over allegations of trademark infringement.
Kate Attlee, the founder of Sabzi, says Bloomsbury has “refused requests” to change the name of one of their recently published cookery titles, which she claims has used her deli’s brand that is trademarked.
Ms Attlee, a 37-year-old mother of two, founded Sabzi in 2019 and launched her first deli in Truro the same year, shortly after reaching the quarter finals of BBC’s MasterChef.
The collection now extends to four Cornwall-based delis – also operating in Falmouth, Padstow and Nansledan – a website with an online store under the name Sabzi, and a range of 14 products under the Sabzi name.
Sabzi has also been publishing its recipes for free to its 5,000 newsletter subscribers and on its website and social media since 2023, and Ms Attlee had been planning to publish an eponymous book collating and building on this collection.
Kate Attlee with the Sabzi deli branding (Image: James Ram for Sabzi)
However, in July Bloomsbury published a book of vegetarian recipe by author Yasmin Khan’s book under the name Sabzi – something that Ms Atlee claims is an “infringement of her intellectual property rights.”
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