You are guilty if you bake a pie with chocolate and nuts and call it Derby-Pie®. You can't call it that.
Your Aunt Mattie is equally guilty if she claims she bakes the best Derby-Pie® in town. She can't call it that.
However, you are not guilty if you bake Derby-Pie® and your name is Alan Rupp, president of Kern's Kitchen — the official baker of Derby-Pie® chocolate nut pie.
It's Kentucky Derby time, which means it's the season for authentic Derby-Pie® — the treat that many fans feel merits consideration as the official dessert of Kentucky. There's only one Derby-Pie® chocolate nut pie and that's the mantra of Rupp — and his patent-and-trademark attorneys.
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