‘Yellowstone’ star Cole Hauser promoted coffee brand 1 day after Taylor Sheridan’s lawsuit filing
nypost.comfiled a suit against Hauser’s new company.“Morning cruise @freereincoffeecompany get up and get after it!” the “2 Fast 2 Furious’ actor, 48, penned on social media.He shared the post alongside a snapshot of himself drinking a cup of Joe while riding a sailboat by the sunrise.The picture was posted on Nov.
22 — just one day after Sheridan, 53, registered his case on Nov. 21.The document was filed in Northern District of Texas’ federal court in San Angelo for trademark infringement.The court docs cited unfair competition and false advertising, claiming that Free Rein and Bosque Ranch’s logos are too similar.
Both companies use a familiar symbol, with the letters B and R interlocking.The “Break-Up” actor and the “Wind River” director were actually quite the pals before the java drama went down.Hauser — who plays cowboy Rip Wheeler on the Paramount+ Western series — gushed over Sheridan in a May interview with WFAA.“It was very natural in the sense that Taylor and I got to know each other very well.
We’re out in the middle of nowhere, in Utah at times, and in Montana, and we just became dear friends,” he explained. “And when you spend time with people, especially as a writer like him, he takes little kind of interesting things, whether it’s who I am as a person, who he is as a person, the things we care about, that we want to talk about in society.
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